New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed ...

A judge will decide Monday whether new evidence warrants a re-examination of the convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez in the ...

President-elect Trump's major cabinet nominations are in. Now it's up to the Senate to confirm them. Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with sports journalist Reem Abulleil, Rafael Nadal's impact on men's tennis and what the sport could look like as top players retire.

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what ...

On-air challenge: Every answer today is the name of a famous person in which the first two letters of the first name are the ...