Search results for

NPR's Skunk Bear blog received 300 nominations for our Golden Mole Award for Accidental Brilliance. We have a winner: Elizabeth Tibbetts found her luck, and scientific insight, in tiny insect faces.

Its cost had swollen; its design sparked an unflattering meme. Now Japan's prime minister is telling Tokyo organizers to start over with their plan for a centerpiece stadium.

Two major quakes hit southern Japan barely a day apart, killing at least 41 people and flattening at least 90 homes. Now, rescue crews are searching for survivors and assessing the damage.

Days after a Russian jet crashed in Egypt, killing 224 people, Britain has suspended its flights through the Sharm el-Sheikh airport, and cite a 'significant possibility' of a bomb on the plane.

About 2,100 people died on Friday — the highest daily death toll in the United States so far. Confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been reported in nearly every country around the world.

The government has failed to issue social distancing orders. And after weeks out of public view, President Daniel Ortega reemerged Wednesday and decried the coronavirus as a sign from God.

Usually quiet Israeli government agencies and contractors are going public with their battle against COVID-19.

Florida is home to millions of retirees and, tens of thousands of people live in an area called The Villages. The elderly are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus

In the Somali capital of Mogadishu, funerals have begun for those killed in Saturday's truck bombing. Officials caution the death would continue to rise from the nation's worst-ever attack.

The Northern California wildfires killed at least 40 people and forced some 75,000 to evacuate. But Napa officials say firefighters have made enough progress for the county to switch to recovery mode.