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"Emotions are raw and tensions just don't heal overnight," the president-elect admitted in a nearly two-minute video.

Strict bans on ivory trade are aimed at preventing elephant poaching. But the measures are causing unintended consequences for Alaska Natives who hunt walruses and carve their tusks for a living.

Bhutan-born Tenzin Dorjee has experienced an uptick in racial slurs recently in the rural, upstate town he has lived in for years. Now, his community is rallying behind him, publicly and powerfully.

At the New England Aquarium, seals don't just cruise around the tank; they go to school each day. And their teacher has an individual lesson plan for each one of them.

Here's hoping that the holiday provides the rare oasis from a year full of rancor and racial strife in our politics.

Defying a pet ban, Gavin Williamson keeps the spider at his desk, where it apparently intimidates people. He says he won't consider removing it until somebody removes all the mice in the old building.

The victims included Iranians who were returning from a major religious pilgrimage in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

Nearly two months after Colombians voted to reject a peace accord, the two sides have signed a modified agreement to end more than 50 years of conflict.

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello has a preview of the would-be awards contenders and blockbusters Hollywood will be opening as the rest of us open presents.

Host Amy Hadden Marsh talks with Carbondale resident Barbara Dills about her connections to the Lakota Nation and her time on the Rosebud reservation and…