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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Chris Kraus about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together.

Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it out.

The court's conservative majority could invalidate the section of the Voting Rights Act aimed at ensuring minority voters are not shut out of the process of drawing new congressional district lines.

Gaza's future is filled with hard questions. Consider these three: Who will govern the territory? Who will provide security? And who will be in charge of the money and reconstruction?

Each year, many more Americans see live theater in local schools than on Broadway. So when a show has a short run in New York? It's not over.

The Trump administration is cutting another 466 federal workers from the Department of Education, including staff who oversee funding that supports children with disabilities and low-income students.

The City of Coralville passed a resolution affirming its protections for the LGBTQ community. It’s the second city to do so after state lawmakers removed gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act earlier this year.

A look at how cumbia found a second home in Mexico's "Little Colombia."

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.