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If you live on $1.90 a day or less, the World Bank says you are extremely poor. Two new poverty lines offer a way to measure poverty in middle income countries.

Ohioans dealing with the addiction crisis had been hoping President Trump’s emergency declaration would direct new money to fight the opioid epidemic....

An unseen force keeps patrons from leaving a dinner party. It's the premise of a 1962 surrealist film — and the basis of British composer Thomas Adès' latest opera.

NPR's Noel King gets the latest details of the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, from NPR's Colin Dwyer.

The suspect in the New York terrorist attack was a native of Uzbekistan who came to the U.S. through a visa lottery program. Now there are calls to end it.

Clocks "fell back" Sunday at 2 a.m. in most of the U.S. Many will gladly accept the extra hour of sleep, but others argue this twice-a-year tradition ultimately harms society.

An autopsy says Rogelio Martinez died of blunt force trauma to his head by a West Texas highway last November. But the FBI has turned up no support for speculation that smugglers killed him.

The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl for the first time in history on Sunday. NPR's Gene Demby is from Philadelphia, and talks about what the win means for the city and for him.

The National Weather Service says a private company erroneously released a routine test message as an official warning. But AccuWeather blames the NWS for miscoding the message.

It was a letter that helped jazz legend Sonny Rollins make up his mind. The 87 year old jazz legend, whose life life-long mission has been to give back to others wanted to award a major gift to one of the schools that had honored him with a doctorate. The question became: “where?” Rollins who has received honorary degrees from a number of institution was considering Berklee College of Music, The New England Conservatory and Julliard School.