The Nobel Peace Prize winner devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and ...

There’s a whole bunch of energy right below people’s feet in many Western states. And it doesn’t release any pollution into ...

A new Idaho law is giving doctors who earned their medical degrees abroad a chance to practice permanently in the U.S.

The Idaho New Years Commission wants to make the Potato Drop the state’s “signature holiday event.” Established on New Year’s ...

An Argentine judge ordered pretrial detention for two of the charged for suppling Payne with drugs. Prosecutors had filed ...

Climate change has many effects on our world, from extreme heat to drought to floods, which in turn affect people and their ...

President Carter helped lead a global health effort to eradicate the Guinea worm, a painful parasite which once infected more than 3 million people a year. Cases now number about a dozen a year.

The year's box office numbers were down, due to the residual effects of actors' and writers' strikes, but quality wasn't dimmed. Bob Mondello's list of the 10 best movies of the year overflows.

On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, Mark Metersky was a medical student at a New York City hospital. He was frustrated with one of his patients when he saw something that surprised him.

Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency saw several foreign policy achievements, but was marked by economic struggles at home and the year-long Iranian hostage crisis.

Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1 ranked chess player, quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York on Friday after refusing ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Margie Mason, investigative reporter at the AP, about the alleged exploitation and abuse of the prison labor force in Alabama.