Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, officials said Saturday. The announcement ...

Former President Donald Trump has won Nevada’s six electoral votes, according to a race call from the Associated Press. This ...

Could monkeys randomly striking keys on a keyboard for an for an infinite period of time produce a Shakespearean work? Doubtful, says a new study of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem." ...

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, this Veteran’s Day weekend, we hear from Anna Cherepnina, who was trying to help troops in Afghanistan deal with combat stress when she was sent ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a ...

Montana not only went enthusiastically for Trump for a third time, but took the last statewide seat held by a Democrat. Senator Jon Tester's defeat caps a years-long quest to erase purple from Montana ...

Your daily light exposure impacts your health. A new study finds that too much light at night and not enough natural light during the day can be harmful. This story first aired on Morning Edition on ...

Our daughters voted for the first time this week. Our oldest is 21 years old, and our youngest turned 18 just before Election Day, and so on Tuesday, after our oldest came home from work and our ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to the Oscar-winning actor, Cillian Murphy, about his latest role in Small Things Like These. The film examines abuses committed by the Catholic church in Ireland.

We look at the various threats sent to polling places on election day this week, as well as the extent to which foreign actors tried to interfere with the presidential election.

Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from ...

The presidential election is over, and the complicated two-month sprint has begun to hand over the levers of power from one ...