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Events are happening quickly at the oil field where Islamist militants have been holding a large group of hostages, apparently including some Americans. The kidnappers are retaliating for French military action against militants in neighboring Mali.

Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and the world is still on track for severe climate change impacts, a new U.N. report finds. Action this decade will be essential.

NPR's Noel King talks to Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima about bounties the Russian government is reported to have offered the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued its final report in an investigation into the legacies of federal Indian boarding schools.

NPR has obtained an internal investigative report that alleges mismanagement at a little-known federal agency in charge of producing and distributing official documents, including 2020 census forms.

The Health and Human Services inspector general says the agency wasted at least $341,000 on trips. In one case, a staff member rented a car for $345 per day — far over the allowed rate of $126.

Kentucky isn’t releasing data on the status of thousands of abused and neglected children who were removed from the home of their biological parents,…

The FBI said members of the Hispanic and LGBTQ communities reported receiving offensive messages, some of which said "they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp."

Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed concern in a letter to Attorney General William Barr about Barr's summary of Mueller's findings. Barr is set testify today on Capitol Hill.

Kentucky's premature birth rate is slowly declining, but it still falls above the national average, according to a report released Thursday. The report,...