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Watch Duty, a free app for tracking wildfires, has taken off in the Western U.S. as more of the region experiences destructive wildfires and the overwhelming task of staying informed.

Families with rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer's in middle age are giving scientists a unique window on the disease, and a quick way to test potential treatments.

The president successfully ousted several Indiana Republicans who blocked a redistricting push in that state, while growing dissatisfaction with Trump's agenda gave Democrats an opening in Ohio.

In historic mountains and coastline of Lebanon, people are weary from decades of conflict and facing new fighting on the border with Israel.

Deadly attacks have intensified the fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah.

The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.

David Venturella's appointment as acting ICE director is the latest in a pattern: Many former employees of the private prison company GEO Group end up working at the federal agency, and vice versa.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Anthony Amore, director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, about art heists and what he's noticed about the recent jewelry theft from the Louvre.

In West Maui, some people are heading to the hotels and Airbnbs that have been set aside for evacuees. But others are sticking with family or friends in surviving houses on the island.

Ukraine is also fighting a cyber-war against Russia as the battlefield counter-offensive grinds on. A top Ukrainian intelligence official gives NPR an inside look.