Former president Jimmy Carter will be laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Ga. He died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, and was honored with a National Funeral Service in Washington, D.C.

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been ...

Red flag warnings are in effect for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, as the National Weather Service warns that ...

The World Health Organization leader worked with Carter for 20 years to fight the world's "neglected" diseases. After ...

This was the only one of Trump's criminal charges to reach and complete a trial, making him the first former or future U.S.

Jonesboro activates inclement weather procedures amid a snowstorm, with road safety measures, warming shelters, and winter ...

The fires have forced mass evacuations. Firefighters are struggling to control a patchwork of deadly blazes that have killed ...

Planet Money buys a "biodiversity credit" and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species.

Merrell, the Fire Administrator for FEMA, about fighting -- and plans to rebuild after -- the fires in Los Angeles.

Residents feeling the Palisades Fire abandoned their cars in gridlock traffic as the wildfire approached. Evacuation planning is central to saving lives in wildfires, but many communities are behind.

a baby girl, born at sea on an overcrowded rubber dinghy, has been rescued with her mother.

As he prepares to leave his post, CIA Director Bill Burns speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the transition to a new Trump administration as well as priorities for the U.S. intel apparatus.