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R.O. Kwon's latest novel "Exhibit" centers on a photographer, an injured ballerina, and their instantaneous — and intense — relationship. She speaks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about desire and taboos.

For a few weeks in late spring, thousands of fireflies emerge at the Congaree National Park in South Carolina to blink in synchrony. Scientists are trying to learn their secrets and to protect them.

"Okalolies" ring in the new year on the world's most remote inhabited island by visiting the population of not quite 250 in masks and making mischief, an annual chance for the community to come together.

The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

The landslide buried a village under 20 to 25 feet of debris. More than 100 people are believed to have been killed, but officials say the number could go higher.

A U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who worked with them were shot and killed by gang members in Haiti's capital after they were attacked while leaving a youth group activity held at a local church, a family member said Friday.

The actor is scheduled to go on trial in July for involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Over three days, 14 people with different backgrounds from all over Wisconsin met in person to discuss abortion policy and discovered how far they could get.

To write Mad Max: Fury Road a decade ago, George Miller needed to figure out a character named Furiosa. Here's how that became the screenplay for his latest movie.

The proposed legal settlement by the NCAA and its Power Five conferences would allow schools to directly pay athletes. But questions remain, including whether men and women will be paid equally.