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A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia's Far East is sending tsunami waves to Hawaii, Alaska, California and Oregon. More countries, like Peru and Chile, are bracing for impact.

Cool people around the world all have the same effortless “it” factors, according to a new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

How do scientists monitor the populations of the threatened California red-legged frog? With careful listening and a little help from AI.

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.

President Trump argues that the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates to make buying a house cheaper. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warns that could backfire.

Extreme weather makes being out in nature more risky as the flood deaths at Camp Mystic in Texas showed.

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 White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.

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.

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.

In the aftermath of the deadly floods, Texas lawmakers are reassessing a bill they killed weeks ago to beef up emergency alert systems and vowing to have more in place by the next camping season.

One hope for reshoring manufacturing is it could help revitalize the heartland. NPR's Planet Money team dives deep into the economic theory and evidence behind this idea.