Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War ...

The changes include allowing home health care workers to be paid below minimum wage, removing transportation requirements for migrant farm workers and no longer requiring adequate lighting at ...

Piping plovers have been in decline for a while but are miraculously thriving in Massachusetts. This article was originally ...

Here & Now ‘s Scott Tong asks CNN’s Brian Stelter about the changing role of late-night political comedy. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of the 1980s passed with bipartisan support. But when voters revolted, Congress repealed the law.

Israel has expanded its ground offensive in Gaza as Gaza’s population of two million people is crammed into just 12% of the territory’s land.

The catastrophic floods along the Guadalupe River killed 135 people, and the survivors are still trying to make sense of what ...

Kansas recently passed a ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender minors. Zane Irwin of the Kansas News Service tells us how one family is trying to navigate the changes and ...

The Justice Department charged three people behind a company called PageTurner with cheating 800 authors out of $44 million.

A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, ...

The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the last year. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Pittsburgh scholar Kay Shimizu about what's behind the shortage in the homeland of sushi.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author Jason Reynolds talks about the realities of caregiving for his aging mom.