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In 1990, Yusef Salaam was one of the five boys wrongly convicted in the so-called Central Park jogger case. They weren't exonerated until 2002. Salaam tells his story in Better, Not Bitter.

Critic Alan Cheuse likes his books thoughtfully plotted — and 2011 has made him a happy reader. A tiger haunts, a teen flees, ballplayers dream and vampires reign in beautifully conceived stories from new and distinguished authors.

The case involves just one abortion, but it's likely to have wider implications in the state with some of the strictest abortion laws in the country.

Cost and lethal injection complications have led some states to reconsider the death penalty. U.S. support for the practice has declined over the last two decades, but 3 in 5 still support it.

This episode originally aired on June 5, 2019.June 6 marks the anniversary of D-Day, when more than 150,000 Allied troops spilled onto five beach along…

A new study found that employees enrolled in a workplace intervention program as a group lost more weight than employees who received only written health…

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is this weekend.The event was started by the Drug Enforcement Administration eight years ago, allowing people to…

In a move that marks the end of an era, destruction of the country's last chemical weapons stockpile starts this summer in Kentucky. It comes after years of debate over how to do it safely.

The deadline to fill out your March Madness bracket is coming up. If you want to participate but don't care or know anything about basketball, try these hairbrained rules for picking the winner.

Pentagon officials tell NPR that U.S. intelligence regards the activity as "circumstantial evidence" that Iran launched the strike from its own soil.