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After luring asylum-seekers to the EU as a political stunt, Belarus has now sent people back to the dangerous place they were escaping, rights groups and migrants tell NPR.

From 2020 to 2022, calls to Connecticut’s Human Anti-Trafficking Response Team on alleged child sex trafficking doubled, according to the state Department of Children and Families.

The new laws taking effect in 2025 include an annual minimum wage increase and several changes that are intended to increase the accessibility of health care.

Worsening wildfires are hiking up home insurance rates in California, the biggest market in the U.S. And as climate disasters increase across the country, other states are feeling the pressure too.

The World Health Organization gathered data from 139 countries for its first-ever report on how to prevent drowning.

From meal kits to grocery service to restaurant delivery, we look at the carbon footprint of convenient food and the choices people can make to try to reduce it. Sometimes there are trade-offs.

Forty years ago in the Soviet Union, a group of underground musicians opened a venue where they and their friends could perform. The Leningrad Rock Club remains a legend of Russian counterculture.

The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Amid a stark shift in U.S. policy, Ukrainians want the war to end — but not on Russia's terms.

Startups are catering to mourners who want a way to communicate with their lost loved ones — or at least digital likeness of them.