While the two candidates have been crisscrossing the swing states for weeks, this is the first time they are literally ...

NPR's Short Wave tells about an ambitious plan to protect monarch butterflies from climate change, new research about a massive ocean migration, and seven new frog species found in Madagascar.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with country music icon Reba McEntire about her new NBC sitcom Happy's Place, about a woman who ...

An immigration proposal on Arizona ballots this fall is raising worries across the political spectrum.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about the death penalty cases that have come under scrutiny this year.

NPR returns to 12 swing voters who disapproved of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump back in May to find out where they've landed with Kamala Harris as the nominee and the election just weeks away.

The presidential campaigns are projecting confidence in Michigan. But the fact that candidates from both major parties are in the state on the same day shows how close the race is in this key state.

An referendum to legalize abortion in Missouri is gaining supporters in part as a reaction to the states current strict ban.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Antoine Renard, the World Food Programme Country director for Gaza, about how people in north Gaza are starving and aid shipments reached their lowest level in September.

The suit says videos by Kentucky small businesses were identified as possibly of interest to the senator, who has expressed ...

Cuban government declares an "energy emgergency" after the failure of one of its few power plants plunges it into an ...

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