He's been called China's Tolkien, its Martin, its Rowling — all in one. With his adventure stories rooted in ancient China, Louis Cha gave life to decades' worth of martial arts films.
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Top Trump administration officials said they're seeking a halt to hostilities in the war-torn country — and that they'd like to see it within 30 days, to open the door for more permanent peace talks.
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As many as 75 Palestinians have needed a leg amputation after suffering Israeli gunshot wounds at Gaza border protests, according to the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in Gaza City.
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Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname, "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands, scapegoated immigrants and upheld white supremacy.
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By weighing in on the NFL protests, President Trump transformed football fields across America into the front lines of a culture war. Three Texans explain how the debate will inform their votes.
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In the U.S., Alzheimer's clinical trials are largely limited to fluent English speakers, which leaves millions of patients without the opportunity to participate and scientists without diverse data.
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Ballot initiatives in Utah, Nebraska and Idaho will determine whether to expand Medicaid, after legislators refused to do so. Montanans will vote on whether to keep the state's expansion intact.
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Remains of dozens of people have been recovered in the aftermath of the crash of the plane with 189 aboard. Searchers have located a large object underwater that could be the plane's fuselage.
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President Trump is floating a new tactic in his immigration crackdown — he wants to end the right to citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to noncitizens. Few legal experts believe it can be done.
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Maine's mostly rural 2nd Congressional District was won by President Trump and Republican Bruce Poliquin currently holds the House seat. But former Marine Jared Golden hopes to flip it to Democrats.
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The story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s has been unknown even to friends, colleagues and family — until now.
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One year after the #MeToo movement took off, new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on the issue of sexual assault and harassment. The fissures run more along party lines than gender.
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The Pakistani Catholic woman was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 after an argument with her Muslim co-workers. The country's religious right has called for her execution.
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Witnesses say that the fire started at two different places — with one of the points of origin near an SCE power pole, according to the utility company.
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For months, Puerto Rican officials have said their government is ready for another hurricane. But the part of its emergency response plan dealing specifically with hurricanes hasn't been completed.
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Venice saw an unusually high tide leaving three-quarters of the city covered in water. Officials in large areas of the country closed schools and urged residents to stay indoors.
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More than a dozen states have ballot measures aimed at putting stricter rules on candidates and officeholders. One activist says even Watergate didn't ignite such interest in enacting ethics rules.
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The university system's board of regents said it would implement all the recommendations from an independent commission's study that found problems in the culture of its football program.
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The statue commemorating Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a key figure in the Indian independence movement, stands roughly four times the height of the Statue of Liberty.
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Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in the country. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult.
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The U.S. endured three bouts of domestic extremism last week. American-born men with far-right beliefs have been charged in all of them, in keeping with a long-standing pattern.
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The companies are battling over whether Bumble swiped Tinder's features. Their dispute sheds new light on how the patent system is grappling with invention on the Internet.
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Shoulder to shoulder, they formed a line 500 feet long: from the stockroom of the old shop, down the sidewalk, and into the shop floor of the new store.
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News organizations including NPR have received information about claims related to the alleged scheme that have so far proven impossible to verify.
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Hill always wanted to be a writer and director, but an unexpected complement in an acting class shifted him toward performing instead. Now he's written and directed his first movie, Mid90s.
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James "Whitey" Bulger rose to power as a secret informant to the FBI. His 16-year run as a fugitive made Bulger a legend and deeply embarrassed the FBI.
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