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Federal prosecutors recently extradited a man from Singapore to face charges he helped conspire to evade export-control laws and send material that wound up in improvised explosive devices in Iraq.

Ultramarathoners can train for years and still get sidelined by blisters. Stanford researchers tested paper surgical tape during a 155-mile race and found it reduces blisters by 40 percent.

Someone has been using Lego blocks to repair the corner of a crumbling brick building in Boston. Reporter Tovia Smith set out to investigate who this person is and what else he has been up to.

After 22 years away from the Metropolitan Opera, acclaimed soprano Kathleen Battle will return for a November concert of spirituals.

Authorities around the world are boosting security at airports and train stations after the suicide-bombings in Belgium. One option, used in other countries, is screening passengers at the front door.

Two sinkholes are expanding after years of drilling for oil and gas, and there's concern the two could converge into a giant hole.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Vivienne Walt, a reporter for Time Magazine in Paris, about the truck attack in Nice, France, that left more than 70 people dead and injured many more.

A French aid organization said its emergency medical staffers were killed near Aleppo on Tuesday, a day after the cease-fire collapsed.

Monday's Clinton-Trump debate falls on the anniversary of the first-ever televised presidential debate, between Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy.

Three retired leaders of the Franciscan religious order have been charged with conspiracy and child endangerment for allegedly allowing a friar who was a known sexual predator to work in schools.