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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Belle Burden about her memoir Strangers, and the powerful response the book is having.

Indonesia is in the midst of a nickel boom, but there are concerns about how the mineral is mined and refined, and about its cost to the environment and local health.

Dozens of students, faculty members and residents protested at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday, speaking out against the potential environmental impacts of a new golf facility the university is hoping to build in Mansfield.

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

The Pentagon says that the cost of the war with Iran is estimated to be some $25 billion. Defense officials were appearing on the Hill for budget discussions.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with election law expert Richard Hasen about Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling in the landmark case Louisiana v. Callais.

Some 50,000 people were arrested in Iran during the anti-regime protests that led up to the Iran war. Most are still in prisons and their families get little to no information about them.

In Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday night, the Sabres faced off against the Boston Bruins. The microphone malfunctioned during the singing of the Canadian anthem, but the crowd stepped up.

A Canadian law enacted late last year removes the one-generation limit on citizenship based on descent.

Detainees in ICE custody report being transferred without notice, complicating their immigration cases and leaving lawyers scrambling