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New research shows a surprising way to possibly reduce the brain-damaging effects of head trauma: an ingredient in fish oil.

The Obama administration made three separate announcements which seem to put pressure on big businesses in the U.S.

In countries where abortions are illegal, the issue raises questions about whether laws should be adjusted in response to the health crisis.

Shelter is a play based on interviews with Central American kids about the violence that drove them to migrate north, and the experience of living in limbo in the U.S. It opens this weekend.

The Democratic presidential race has turned negative. Bernie Sanders now says Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be president. NPR explores how the race, which has been relatively civil, got to this point.

If we can lock and unlock our smartphones with a fingerprint, why can't we do the same with guns? One company tried to make a safer so called smart gun and found itself hated by everyone.

There are conflicting stories about how many people were kidnapped from a cement factory near Damascus. A rights group says 170 people were taken, but state media puts that number at more than 300.

"My ears just about burned on that one," journalist Val Castor said. The Woodward County blaze is 20 percent and spans nearly 90 square miles.

Nuclear power is carbon-free and remains the source of about 20 percent of U.S. electricity. But natural gas, wind and solar are often cheaper, and unprofitable reactors are being shut down.

On Friday, a supply rocket is scheduled to send an inflatable module to the International Space Station. The expandable technology is being developed by a private firm.