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Before 2015, Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied Silk Road city. Syrians hope restoration can begin now.

Paul Whelan was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War. He says bureaucracy in the U.S still has him imprisoned.

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review and interviews with former committee members.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Erin Patterson was convicted last month of killing her estranged husband's relatives with a meal laced with toxic mushrooms. Newly unsealed evidence alleges she previously poisoned his meals too.

For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the team from the WWNO/WRKF podcast Sea Change about their reporting on community responses to climate-driven coastal erosion in Alaska and Louisiana.

It's the 40th anniversary of the superstar concert to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia — and of the creation of a U.S. program called FEWS NET to prevent future famines.

Eight municipalities in Vermont have adopted "situation tables" — regular meetings of law enforcement and social services agencies that are meant to coordinate responses to intertwined social challenges, like poverty and addiction, that can sometimes lead to crime.

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.