More than 40 monkeys are now roaming the streets of Yemassee, S.C., after staging an escape from a research facility.

The floods from Helene have all but wiped out Asheville's popular arts district. Now its artists are finding other ways to make up for their losses.

Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Nov. 7 in honor of Dame Maggie Smith, who died in September. Smith began her acting career on stage and took theater roles well into her 80s.

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future.

On a rare undeveloped point of the California coast, scientists are trying to repopulate shorelines with an endangered marine snail. This type of experimental conservation is becoming more necessary.

President Biden said he's committed to a smooth transition of power -- and gave a pep talk to Democrats disappointed in the election results.

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with political consultant Mike Madrid on the causes that motivated the Latino voting bloc in this year's election.

Nearly six weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Western North Carolina, radio reporter Jose Sandoval's daily ...

Voters in a handful of states, including pro-business red states, approved ballot measures aimed at helping workers and their families.

Control of the House is still too close to call, according to the Associated Press. Here's a running list of races that are ...

With McCormick's victory, Republicans have expanded their Senate majority in the next Congress to 53 seats, with two races ...