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The Italian navy and aid groups rescued 3,000 people coming from Libya on Tuesday and nearly 7,000 on Monday. Italy is struggling to handle the load.

A new study suggests the 3.2 million-year-old hominin died when she fell from a tree and fractured her bones. But other paleoanthropologists say the breaks happened after she died.

A Harvard professor argues that successful science teaching starts with understanding student misconceptions.

This isn't the first time the U.S. men's basketball team is staying outside the athletes village where most Olympians will be housed in Rio.

A team of researchers in Australia used a special mapping technique to expose a striking painting of another woman under the French Impressionist's Portrait of a Woman.

Scientists have answered a burning question central to the charm of sunflowers: Why do young flowers move their blooms to always face the sun over the course of a day?

After refusing to back the House speaker Tuesday, Trump took a step toward healing the party rift by issuing words of support to powerful GOP members who've sought to distance themselves from him.

A new study says that 69 percent of Chicago high school students earned D's or F's when retaking algebra on computers.

TSA administrator Peter Neffenger was in Belgium during last month's terrorist attack at the Brussels airport. He talks about that experience with NPR, and about what U.S. travelers can expect regarding airport security and screening lines this summer.

Director Vitaly Mansky started out working on a government-sanctioned film about children in North Korea. But when approval was withdrawn, he made a different documentary entirely.