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The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.

As millions of Muslims begin observing Ramadan, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Aya Khalil and Nadine Presley, authors of two new children's books about this holy month.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad.

Today marks day one of the first teachers strike in San Francisco in nearly 50 years.

More than two days after the Trump administration attacked Venezuela and seized its president, what's the situation in the country?

You know that feeling when you finish a book and just have to discuss it with someone? That's a great book club book. Here are 20 tried-and-true titles that are sure to get the conversation started.

Trucks have been stuck at the closed border since October. Both countries are facing economic losses with no end in sight. The Taliban also banned all Pakistani pharmaceutical imports to Afghanistan.

From public spaces to public goods like social security, these stories reveal how the New Deal transformed life in the Bay Area more than 90 years ago, and how the tangible and intangible things it built continue to live on all around us.

Doctors, patients and researchers are at the very beginning of understanding how the new class of obesity drugs interact with eating disorders.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Annie Farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, about what may be in the final release of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice.

Forecasters are warning of a historic storm expected to hit this weekend, with snow and ice from Texas to the Carolinas and up the East Coast. The winter system could bring more than a foot of snow.

President Trump says the United States conducted a strike in Venezuela and captured that country's president, Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, Cilia Flores.