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In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Intelligence Director James Clapper says "unpredictable instability has become the new normal."

The politics surrounding the future of Chicago's public school system are intensifying. Three different players are in a power struggle for control of the system, which is suffering financially.

Escape is a short story written by Teddie Lloyd Buckley, who is an 8th grader at Canterbury Middle School in Fort Wayne. Teddie's story is narrated by…

The nets that ensnare the giant totoaba fish also trap and kill an endangered porpoise called the vaquita.

"It's a little space, well-measured and precise, in which you have to keep the ball bouncing," says Álvaro Enrigue. His book, Sudden Death, pits the Italian painter against the Spanish poet.

Behind the headlines and news conferences announcing the discovery were decades of hard work, hundreds of scientists and more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funds.

In this episode of The Weekly Experiment, Martin Fisher from Science Central explores the odd physics of images. How does light form images, what are the…

The U.S. and Cuba will sign a civil aviation agreement on Tuesday, formalizing an arrangement reached in December that allows for some U.S. flights to Cuba. Flights will begin later this year.

This fall, voters in California may get to weigh in on two very different ballot measures on capital punishment — one to ban the death penalty and another to expedite executions. California still sentences convicted murderers to death, but there hasn't been an execution there since 2006. That's when a federal judge suspended capital punishment. On a rare tour of San Quentin State Prison, NPR found death row inmates stuck in high security limbo.

Ted Cruz said he doesn't consider waterboarding torture, and Donald Trump said he would bring back "worse" methods. We break down whether that would be an option under the law.