The fires around Los Angeles arrived just as Hollywood's awards season kicked off. It's an ominous sign at a time when film ...

More than 100,000 Los Angeles County residents remain under evacuation orders, and the threat of fire there is not over. New ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's close friends included the likes of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman brothers.

The government provides HIV medicines free of charge. Yet in one indigenous territory, cases and deaths are increasing at an ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to law professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University about the Laken Riley Act, a bipartisan bill in Congress that aims to expand the detention of undocumented immigrants.

Firefighters continue to struggle against the wildfires around Los Angeles. The death count has risen and looting has become a problem amid the destruction.

A winter storm is still causing cancellations and power outages in parts of the south this morning.

Ukraine's outgoing representative makes a case for her country's NATO membership even as the incoming Trump administration opposes it.

President-elect Trump's picks for his national security team will soon start confirmation hearings, after his remarks about buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal and making Canada a state.

The Wilson family evacuated from their home in Altadena, California before it burned down. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Virginia Wilson and her 16-year old daughter, Charlotte.

Singer and former beauty queen Anita Bryant has died at the age of 84. She was well-known for her advocacy against LGBTQ rights in the 1970s.

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were targeted with bomb threats. An NPR investigation later found evidence the dissident was linked to con which included the specter of bomb threats.