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Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

The FDA is expected to propose a new rule Wednesday that would mean cigarettes have lower nicotine limits to make them less addictive.

The US presidential election is playing out in India as a big fight between the two southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

NPR's Juana Summers spoke with Greenlandic politician Naaja Nathanielsen in February 2025 about the Trump administration's push to acquire the territory.

Award-winning author Leila Philip writes about about the profound ways beavers, the fur trade, and Indigenous stories have shaped our history, culture, and environment.

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

The Pentagon announced it will cut its budget by some $50 billion each year for the next five years. But questions remain about where those tens of billions of dollars in savings will come from.

Why are U.S. tech investors so worried about DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence company whose new chatbot is now among the most-downloaded free apps in the U.S.?

The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees.

Coast Miwok Indians can be traced back nearly 5000 years to the land known today as the Point Reyes National Seashore. A Coast Miwok family wants the US National Park Service to restore – and give them access to – their ancestral home nestled in a small cove on Tomales Bay.

The National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of biomedical research in the U.S., could face big changes under the new Trump administration, some fueled by pandemic-era criticisms of the agency.

President Trump pledged to change the name of two natural landmarks in his second inaugural address. Can he do that?