Michael Levitt is a news assistant for All Things Considered who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. Before coming to NPR, Levitt worked in the solar ...

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled.

The White House says fentanyl smuggled to the U.S. justifies tariffs against Canada, China and Mexico. But fentanyl deaths ...

The 64-year-old tug driver sustained head and lower body injuries and was transported to the hospital in critical condition ...

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid ...

Luka Doncic is being traded by the reigning Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers for ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

From Altadena to Asheville, people devastated by recent disasters encountered helpers trained in Psychological First Aid.

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

It was a big party in Punxsutawney this weekend. "This is my favorite holiday," one local says of the fuss-free day, adding, "You don't have to even see your in-laws." This year, Phil saw his shadow.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

Americans across the country received harmful hate messages via text after the election. The communication industry has been ...