A new working paper from economists Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova categorizes tribal gaming as a kind of ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

A new study in the journal JAMA finds the health of America's children has worsened across several key indicators over the ...

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the ...

An estimated 16 million Americans could lose their health care coverage with funding cuts and policy changes in the federal ...

Leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economies meeting for their annual summit had hoped to downplay any differences with ...

Indiana is in the process of transitioning to a new model to deliver behavioral health and crisis services. But the top ...

There have been more than 100 deaths following the flash floods in Texas, and dozens more are still unaccounted for. We remember some of those lost in the floods.

NPR's Michel Martin asks U.S. Coast Guard Air Operations Officer Nathan Shakespeare about his work coordinating rescues in the Texas flood zone from a base in Corpus Christi.

Pakistan has quickly become one of the world's biggest markets for solar energy. This solar boom has been driven in large part by consumers who are fed up with sky-high electricity costs.

Leaders in the BRICS group of emerging economies ended their recent summit with calls for less confrontation in the world. But that plea didn't go over well with President Trump.

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts.