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The agency that oversees the U.S. intelligence community has released an unusual public statement ruling out the theory that the coronavirus was manmade.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice authorized the restoration of the social media platform's service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document.

NPR investigates allegations that former Los Angeles mayor and current U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti lied under oath to protect a friend and adviser from harassment claims.

Some lawmakers are questioning conditions at immigration detention centers for people with a disability, after one man's ordeal in Georgia went public.

Some lawmakers are questioning conditions at immigration detention centers for people with a disability, after one man's ordeal in Georgia went public.

HELEN PREJEAN (pray-ZSAHN)'s book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" (Random House) details her experience working with death row inmates in Louisiana. Prejean has come to believe that the death penalty is not only ineffective as a deterrent, but that the government can't be trusted to decide who should live and who should die. Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun

Novelist and military historian Caleb Carr died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, N.Y. He was 68.

A House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has voted to hold former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt, revealing new details in his text messages.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about new rules that would compensate airline passengers for flight delays and cancellations.

We hear rare eyewitness testimony from Darfur, one of the worlds unseen and often forgotten conflicts — which has resulted in the largest child displacement crisis in the world.