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The word began as a medical diagnosis but over the centuries has evolved to mean the longing for a bygone, idealized past.

A new study finds that the wide range of domestic dog shapes and physical attributes we're familiar with today first started appearing thousands of years ago.

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

Harvard University officials have recently raised the alarm on grade inflation. More than 60% of grades awarded to students have been A's. That's up 25% from two decades ago.

Since Nov. 13, 2,000 union Starbucks baristas have been on strike.

In an extraordinary journey, a Palestinian man used a jet ski to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe after he fled the war in Gaza.

Pods for the road trip or after the food coma

European nations clamor to be involved in Ukraine peace talks, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation forces GOP to rethink its politics, Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating ceasefire.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Garrett Graff, author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 about former Vice President Dick Cheney's role that day, and thereafter.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with retired teacher Barbara VornDick about her years-long efforts to shed new light on the life and death of Eliza Monroe Hay, President James Monroe's eldest daughter.