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One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and across the Pacific.

Two deputies from the sheriff’s office will patrol Brevard while the city tries to fill vacancies in its police department.

Using U.S. forces to take control of a merchant ship is unusual and marks the Trump administration's latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism.

The mission of the Carlisle Industrial School: “Kill the Indian” and “Save the Man.” We're learning more about so-called boarding schools from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, engineered by white men to educate Native American children. While the stories are a new component of American history for white people, the trauma they perpetrated spans generations. Geoff O'Gara made a film about one of the affected tribes.

The North Carolina State Park agency announced the reopening this week as part of ongoing Hurricane Helene recovery.

There are many ways to grieve. In Massachusetts, people who have lost loved ones take a weekly walk. They say strolling in a park is the perfect casual setting for sharing their feelings.

The sanctions sharply escalate tensions with the leftist leader of a country that has traditionally been one of the closest U.S. allies in South America.

In this first glimpse of the "Sea Camp" series from NPR's Short Wave podcast, hear how climate change will significantly shift three-quarters of the ocean's surface currents by the end of the century.

The floods from Helene have all but wiped out Asheville's popular arts district. Now its artists are finding other ways to make up for their losses.

Democratic-led states secured a legal victory to keep the personal data of food recipients out of the federal government's reach. But NPR's reporting shows that millions of records on Americans have already been shared.