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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the world is so close to catastrophe that the Doomsday Clock will no longer be measured in minutes but in seconds.

Democratic impeachment managers in the Senate trial against President Trump will finish opening statements Friday. Trump's defense team is to begin its response in the chamber on Saturday.

There is extensive coverage of the arguments both sides are making to 100 Senate jurors. But prosecution and defense teams are also echoing those messages outside the chamber to appeal to the public.

Matt MacMillan spent a year recording his son's coos and laughs. He painstakingly isolated them by pitch and stitched them together. The result is some serious competition for AC/DC.

The threat of the mysterious pneumonia-like ailment called coronavirus has Chinese authorities scrambling to prevent it from spreading. At least 26 people have died.

Critics love to hate the World Economic Forum's annual meeting for elites. But people who work in global health and development say it has helped do some good.

In 2005, journalist Laurence Rees described the inner workings of the Nazi death camp in his book, Auschwitz: A New History, and Elie Wiesel spoke in 1988 about his experience at Auschwitz.

Residents in Wuhan and other Chinese cities affected by the Wuhan coronavirus are using platforms like Weibo to share their fears and frustrations.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ranu Dhillon, a doctor and former Ebola adviser to Guinea, on the practice of "contact tracing" to contain epidemics like the new coronavirus.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joanne Freeman, a history professor at Yale University, about politicians quoting Alexander Hamilton and other founding fathers during the impeachment trial.