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The deadly earthquake struck Taiwan during the morning rush hour on Wednesday — collapsing buildings and triggering tsunami warnings in Japan and the Philippines.

Two listeners wonder: Why does Covington's largest park have its own police department? And, what's at the bottom of the park's Prisoner's Lake?

Wood Hudson President Julia Carter, Ph.D., has partnered with the EPA and five pharmaceutical companies as students do research in her lab.

Talking to historian and author Robert Caro is like stepping into a time machine, as NPR discovered on a visit to his New York office recently.

Expectations were high, but for Rio's poorest, the games are coming up short. "Who is enjoying the games?" asks one man. "Not the poor. It's only for the tourists." But even tourists are staying away.

The COVID-19 lockdown "felt like solitary confinement," a San Diego resident tells NPR. Even after many pandemic rules lifted, American society remains deeply fractured.

Google "rash" online, and you'll mostly turn up photos of inflamed bumps on white skin. That's not so helpful for people of color, says a mom who's pushing for a more realistic diversity of images.

Someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke once every 40 seconds, and more than 160,000 U.S. deaths were by stroke in 2020.

Scores more people are injured. Anti-terrorist investigators have taken over the case. Witnesses describe "bodies everywhere" and hundreds of people running after the truck struck the crowd.

Nigerian American artist Ekene Ijeoma is an MIT professor who draws on sound and data to explore representations of social justice. He's working on a "voice portrait" of the census called A Counting.