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Alaska has long ignored warning signs of a budget crisis. Now, it has no money to fix something that is posing serious health and safety risks to students and staff: crumbling rural schools.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's party approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly that allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

City leaders say more than 13,400 residential accounts are past due, with $12.6 million in overdue funds.

St. Louis Public Radio will air four new programs as part of a programming refresh starting Monday, Aug 11. The new lineup will include NPR’s Tiny Desk Radio, the New York Times’ weekday news show The Daily, weekend news-quiz show Go Fact Yourself, and the BBC’s Not by the Playbook, a weekly sports show featuring inspiring athletes from around the world.

The state’s homicide victimization rate for its Black residents was 54.9 per 100,000 people in 2023, well above the national rate of 26.6 per 100,000.

Local leaders are addressing AI’s impact on water, surveillance, transparency and more. A mostly hands-off approach at the federal level means regulating complex AI issues is–so far–evolving in a patchwork of laws.

Some beach variety packs of High Noon hard seltzers included canned cocktails mislabeled as blue raspberry Celsius energy drinks. The affected lots were sent to retailers in six states last week.

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., discusses why he believes Trump and the Republican Party are scrambling to redistrict before the 2026 midterms and explains what Democrats are doing in response.

While many factors often drive traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews has led to dramatic declines for news outlets and other online information sources.

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.

Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa vanished 50 years ago. What happened remains a mystery as Hoffa's legend has grown. There have been books and hit movies but still no answers.

World Photography Day is celebrated on Aug. 19 to celebrate the storytelling behind photos. This year, NPR wants to hear the story behind your favorite picture you've taken.