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In her speech, the first lady said children are often "more aware" than adults about the risks and benefits of social media.

The singer and songwriter from Mali died Sunday at age 59. She was revered across west Africa and beyond for her raw, rootsy sound and her embrace of the many cultures in her beloved city, Timbuktu.

Wildfire activity in the American West is likely to get worse in coming years. A new study out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Oil and gas pipeline opponents have a new legal strategy. They're encouraging states to exercise rights granted in the Clean Water Act to stop new pipeline construction.

Olga Tokarczuk's book won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Critic John Powers says the hard-to-classify work is positively exploding with maps, remembrances, riffs, history and more.

A female employee says her audio recordings show that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt held up her pay raise as he pressed her for a sexual relationship.

Prisoners in 17 states will strike Tuesday in an effort to draw attention to conditions and what they say are exploitative labor practices. David Greene talks to German Lopez, senior reporter at Vox.

The New York Times reports actress Asia Argento paid off an underage actor to keep quiet about their sexual encounter. Argento is one of the women accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape.

Self-driving cars may be the future of transportation. But if they are going to share the road with humans, they have to learn how people behave behind the wheel.

A year ago, President Trump said his original instinct was to pull out of Afghanistan. But he chose to stay. NPR looks at what's changed since then in Afghanistan — and what hasn't.