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They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable."

The giant, multi-billion dollar space telescope that NASA is about to launch is sometimes billed as Hubble's successor. Will this new telescope, which sees infrared light, be able to deliver?

The move marks a major escalation in the nearly two-year-long war that's already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and electrical supply. The inspiring story of their survival was made into a hit movie.

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man who opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Patrick Joseph White. White died and a police officer was shot and killed.

Five years since George Floyd's murder, the energy around overhauling policing has evaporated. Critics say pro-police messaging stifles attempts to address the problems in policing.

Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. He influenced generations of musicians with his innovative approach to studio production, complex vocal harmonization and genre-bending compositions. Host Robin Young thought her 2002 interview with him was lost forever. It resurfaced as the world remembered Wilson's legacy.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner about convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.

A U.S. federal court judge in Boston has ordered the restoration of the grants issued by the National Institutes of Health that had been canceled by the Trump administration.

ICE says its employees have good reasons to hide their faces from protesters who want to dox them online, but Democrats say masked federal agents evokes "secret police," and the practice should be banned.

The Trump administration began firing thousands of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday as part of a plan announced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.