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In urban environments, heat gets absorbed and released by the pavement, buildings and other objects. A new study says that an underestimated factor in urban warming is heat radiating from parked cars.

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay out $116 million dollars to settle dozens of sexual abuse lawsuits brought by people formerly incarcerated at the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute.

Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Berkeley's People's Park, long a flash point of political and community activism, has been barricaded by stacked shipping containers for more than a year -- but construction on UC Berkeley's student housing project on the site is moving ahead.

On Thursday, the government delivered closing arguments in the sex trafficking trial of Sean Combs. The rapper and executive is accused of coercing multiple women into sexual encounters with male escorts.

Trump has swapped out the grass in the Rose Garden with stone, turning what had been a lawn into a patio that bears a striking resemblance to one at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March, says he was brutally beaten and subjected to psychological torture while held in one of El Salvador's most notorious prisons.

The amendment bans public events held by LGBTQ+ communities and allows authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who attend prohibited events.

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.

Dartmouth Professor Sachi Schmidt-Hori was asked by game company Ubisoft to consult on the script for its game "Assassin's Creed Shadows." Then shee was singled out online for being the driving force behind a decision to feature a Black character — Yasuke — as a samurai and one of the game's protagonists.

In his first term, President Trump only dined out at the steakhouse in his former hotel. He visited a steakhouse near the White House on Tuesday, saying, "I wouldn't have done this three months ago."

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.