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Humans have been eating yogurt for millennia. Ancient texts reference its health-promoting properties. Now a new study finds yogurt may reduce the risk of certain types of colon cancer.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the deadliest tick-borne disease in the U.S., is a big problem on tribal lands in the Southwest. A community-led response on Apache lands in Arizona is helping save lives.

The pardon comes in the last weeks of President Biden's time in office and despite his public assurances in the past that he would neither pardon nor commute his son's sentence.

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.

Her Grammy win for Cowboy Carter will rightly be seen as historic. But for the artist, it's part of a grander thesis long in the making.

His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks.

An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.

With McCormick's victory, Republicans have expanded their Senate majority in the next Congress to 53 seats, with two races still to be called.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to discuss the week's new releases.

Middle school is a notoriously difficult time to be a kid. We talked with Detroit-based author Jack Cheng about his new young adult novel, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou.