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More than one million customers were still without power, so classes were canceled and traffic was chaotic. The power company said half of those customers should have power by the end of the day.

The breathtaking sadness of seeing a young boy suffering amid Syria's civil war has prompted a breathtaking offer of hospitality and friendship.

Two dozen luminaries — from Terry Gross to Mel Brooks, Morgan Freeman to Louise Glück — got laurels Thursday, as President Obama awarded the National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals.

The company says its investigation suggests the stolen data doesn't include payment and bank account information.

Charlotte's mayor tells NPR that the footage will be released "eventually," but that there's no timeline for it. This summer, North Carolina passed a law limiting the public's access to such videos.

Scientists have discovered a soil microbe with a gene that kills the corn rootworm, an insect that farmers spend $1 billion each year trying to control.

When Frances Moore Lappe wrote the best-selling Diet For A Small Planet back in 1971, she helped start a conversation about the social and environmental impacts of the foods we choose.

The smartest pigeon learned to recognize about 60 four-letter words. It's the first time an orthographic brain has been recorded in a nonprimate.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Assad blamed the U.S. for the collapse of a fragile truce earlier this week and denied carrying out well-documented human rights abuses.

There have been calls for police reforms since 2014, but there are practical limits to how fast a willingness to change can translate into its actually happening.