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Nineteen states have passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent. But those laws won't take effect until Congress makes it legal. And the medical community sees one major problem.

Qatar, a U.S. ally, is the regional power best positioned to both influence Hamas and play a mediating role with Israel. Here's what to know.

When the driest place in North America and one of the hottest places on Earth becomes a desert oasis complete with a lake, it's impossible not to take note.

George C. Wolfe's biopic chronicles the work of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in planning an executing the historic 1963 March on Washington.

We explore what the generation gap in Arizona's voters means on the hot-button issue of border security.

Years of research on kids in Palestine have found high rates of post traumatic stress and depression as a result of being exposed to chronic ethnic-political violence.

The CDC finds that leishmaniasis, a skin disease spread by sand flies, is spreading at low levels in the southern U.S. It was previously considered a tropical disease only be acquired abroad.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of NPR's Short Wave about Antarctica's melting ice, the weird anatomy of sea stars, and how a sleepless night can ease depression in mice.

UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, says it is running out of supplies in Gaza, where it is sheltering over 600,000 displaced Palestinians.

Jails in Charleston and Columbia where incarcerated people have died violently at the hands of employees or others held behind bars are under federal investigation, the U.S. Justice Department said.