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The new leader, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, will be expected to reform the bureaucratic agency and deal with the world's growing health problems.

Calling all cat lovers: Western North Carolina is home to the newly-opened American Museum of the House Cat. Nestled alongside U.S. Highway 441, in the…

Many years have passed since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got into financial trouble and had to be placed in conservatorship. The mortgage giants are stable now, but nine years later there is still the question of how to get these companies out of conservatorship and on their own again.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Nick Rasmussen, director of the U.S. Counterterrorism Center, about the Manchester attack and the state of intelligence gathering and sharing with the United Kingdom and other allies.

An attempt to arrest a local militant group's leader went awry in Marawi City on Tuesday. By nightfall, militants occupied public buildings and the Philippine president cut his Russia trip short.

The administration has said it will work out the details of the paid leave plan in budget negotiations. Here are a few of the questions that will have to be answered.

The Trump administration's latest budget includes millions in cuts to land and wildlife management programs. Critics say it would hurt rural America, which largely supported the president in November.

British swimmer Michael Gunning recounts what happened at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday when an explosion killed 22 people and injured 59 more.

The terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, left 22 people dead and 59 hospitalized as of Tuesday evening. The attack was a suicide bombing and the suspected suicide bomber is 22-year-old Salman Abedi.

Whales might be the largest animals on the planet, but they haven't always been so huge. Researchers say the ocean giants only became enormous fairly recently, and over a short period of time.