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Nearly 3 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department says. It's the latest grim sign of the economic damage from the coronavirus crisis.

In Seattle, public health workers are trying to help some of the highest-risk people in isolation by getting their groceries.

The month of March marks the official start of the beach bird nesting season and Audubon Florida wants beach goers to be careful while hanging out by the…

Lawyers representing the families of people who died of COVID-19 have put nursing homes on notice that they plan to sue.

Because of social distancing, her mom invited the neighborhood to a drive-by party. A parade of more than 60 cars passed through — with people waving and honking, shouting and singing.

To most people, a marathon represents an epic physical challenge, a draining test of one's conditioning, such as the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. Then there are athletes like Dean Karnazes, who has run for 262 miles straight. He has written a new book, Ultramarathon Man.

The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation that will officially make the site of Pulse nightclub a national memorial nearly five years after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern American history.

Ancient traditions and beliefs of the peoples of Mesoamerica influence Symphony No. 7 - A Toltec Symphony, composed by Philip Glass as a commissioned tribute to Leonard Slatkin, musical director of the National Symphony Orchestra.

Behind the fight over possible legislation to overhaul Social Security is a battle for the allegiance of older voters -- and it's turning nasty. A conservative group called USA Next surprised a lot of people by running an online ad attacking the senior citizens' group AARP. The ad charged that AARP's "real agenda" wasn't Social Security or any other seniors' issue, but rather an alleged opposition to the troops in Iraq and alleged support for gay marriage. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

Between 1954 and 1996, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored a program for American Indian children, intended to lead a strayed tribe back to Christianity.