Dungeons & Dragons is known as a niche role-playing game. But now game masters are exploring whether it can also be therapeutic, for conditions ranging from anxiety to PTSD.

The Department of Homeland Security is on track to shut down Friday night after Congress left town without a deal to fund the department and limit the tactics of federal immigration officers.

It's been five years since a major winter freeze swept Texas, leaving millions of people without power for days and killing at least 246. The storm left a lasting imprint on many Texans, with natural ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it.

August Ponthier's new album, Everywhere Isn't Texas, explores their complicated relationship with their home state — about leaving Texas and coming out as queer.

N.C., co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate NATO Observer Group, sit down with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly at the Munich Security Conference.

Border czar Tom Homan announced the end of the ICE operation in Minnesota in the coming days following weeks of operations by ...

The FBI describes the armed man caught on Nancy Guthrie's camera as 5-foot-9-inches to 5-foot-10 and of average build. The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie has been missing since Feb. 1.

The Super Bowl is over, but the NFL season is set to ramp up again in just a few months.  Today’s episode features two nonfiction books that delve into the world of football. First, Chuck Klosterman’s ...

The ruling allows an April election where voters can let the legislature draw a new congressional map. It could help ...

Singer, songwriter, and producer Raphael Saadiq is known for his work as a member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, as a solo artist, and for his work producing and writing for artists like Solange, D’Angelo, ...

A federal judge in Illinois quickly issued a restraining order after the Trump administration slashed more than $600 million ...