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"This initial settlement of $850 million is the largest settlement of sexual abuse claims in United States history," Ken Rothweiler, who represents more than 16,000 men in the settlement said.

Democrats in the state worked to move up the date for Gov. Newsom's recall election saying it is the governor's "best opportunity" to walk away victorious.

In the spirit of Independence Day, we meet the guild of bellringers that is still pulling the ropes at Boston's Old North Church. Just like Paul Revere did nearly 300 years ago.

Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows new buildings going up at a huge, remote airfield near an old nuclear test range.

Poet and playwright Tess Taylor breaks down her diverse summer reading list, which includes a biography of Edgar Allen Poe, a poetry collection — and even a book about the act of reading.

The new season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson finds the sketch comedian digging even deeper under the surface of toxic masculinity to reveal its soft, hilariously pathetic center.

The Trump Administration has states and hospitals scrambling with a new rule that makes them bypass the CDC and send their coronavirus data to directly to the department of Health and Human Services.

Michael Taylor, a former Green Beret, and his son Peter are facing charges for allegedly helping Ghosn, the former chairman of Nissan, jump bail and escape Japan for Lebanon.

The official soundtrack to "Los Angeles 1984" featured Quincy Jones and Giorgio Moroder, and remains as slick and deliciously dramatic as the old games' host city.

Haitian authorities have begun to arrest suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Widlore Merancourt in Port-Au-Prince about the latest events.

Just as Haiti was beginning to emerge from the shock of the brutal presidential assassination, the nation has been thrust into another crisis: an earthquake that has killed nearly 1,300 people.

Chuck Hagel took his first trip abroad as defense secretary to Afghanistan this past weekend, and some things did not go as planned.

Iraq's government is waging a costly war with the Islamic State while dealing with falling oil prices, millions of displaced citizens and staggering rebuilding costs.

Racial tensions are high in Rapid City, S.D., as police investigate an incident where white men allegedly shouted racial slurs and dumped beer on a group of Native Americans at a recent hockey game.

People displaced by the deadly fire in and around the town of Paradise debate whether they should rebuild. A husband and wife whose home was destroyed have opposite opinions.

With the city's parking meter lease making voters leery of new privatization deals, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for too many public interest protections in the Midway Airport lease, and too few investors saw it as worth the risk. Increasingly, though, governments turn to private investors to run public assets like roads and prisons.

It smells like vinegar and tastes like spoiled cider. But fans of the fermented tea say that kombucha helps fight off diseases and aging. Sounds fantastical? Well, it probably is. At this point, scientists still know little about kombucha's health effects.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. John Heaton, president and chief medical officer of LCMC Health, about the state of the system's hospitals post-Hurricane Ida.

Is software code speech? Apple says that it is, in its motion to vacate a federal judge's order requiring the company to help the FBI break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

American defense officials said Friday that U.S. planes hit an Islamic State training camp and a senior extremist leader in Libya overnight. As many as 60 people were killed.