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A new study finds that the wide range of domestic dog shapes and physical attributes we're familiar with today first started appearing thousands of years ago.

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

Harvard University officials have recently raised the alarm on grade inflation. More than 60% of grades awarded to students have been A's. That's up 25% from two decades ago.

We asked listeners to send in their Thanksgiving questions.

The meteoric rise of legalized sports gambling has coincided with exponential growth in the types of bets fans can wager.

Since Nov. 13, 2,000 union Starbucks baristas have been on strike.

In an extraordinary journey, a Palestinian man used a jet ski to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe after he fled the war in Gaza.

Propel makes a free app for people on food stamps. Now it's giving some of them $50 each, as some private companies, nonprofits, and individuals scramble to help.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Garrett Graff, author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 about former Vice President Dick Cheney's role that day, and thereafter.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with retired teacher Barbara VornDick about her years-long efforts to shed new light on the life and death of Eliza Monroe Hay, President James Monroe's eldest daughter.