Canada was long the top dog of Olympic women's hockey. But with a win Thursday, the Americans could do more than earn a third gold medal — they could prove the sport's balance of power has shifted.

Legislation in the works would task the state education department with investigating complaints of schools falling short in ...

An NPR reporter covering the Olympics in Milan takes us on cultural side quests, to a hospitality house and a candy store.

U.S. speedskater Jordan Stolz had a lot of hype accompanying him in these Winter Olympic Games. He's now got two gold medals, ...

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name.

A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false ...

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal title over his friendship with the late sex offender. He admits ties to Epstein ...

The 16th annual "Conservation in the West" poll by Colorado College revealed that voters across the political spectrum are concerned by the Trump administration's cuts to public land management.

One bill would require police to ask a standard set of risk assessment questions at every domestic violence call. The other ...

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.