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On this day in 1964, the Spacecraft Mariner 4 was launched into its 228 day mission that would bring the spacecraft within about 6,000 miles of Mars. That…

Everyone spends Father’s Day differently. Whether you’re celebrating by barbequing with your wonderful dad or optimistically wondering if you’ll ever meet…

Parts of the Florida Keys are being overrun by green iguanas. Many are escaped or abandoned pets. They nibble foliage and are a nuisance on the roads. Kim Gabel, a county extension agent, sizes up the situation for Jacki Lyden.

Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, talks to Noah about who is voting today, and what's on their minds as they go to the polls.

The U.N.-mandated event is both a blessing and a curse for AIDS activists like Twesigye Jackson Kaguri.

Parishioners returned Sunday morning to the Emanuel AME Church for the first worship service since Wednesday's mass shooting.

The world has wiped out only one human disease: smallpox. Guinea worm disease looks like it's on the verge of being the second.

Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton campaigned for president over the weekend in Wisconsin, but each camp sent its vice presidential nominee.In…

On the eve of an Iraq update from U.N. weapons inspectors, President Bush uses a rare prime-time White House news conference to emphasize his resolve that Saddam Hussein must be disarmed. Saying "we're in the final days of diplomacy," Mr. Bush called Iraq a direct threat to the American people, and emphasized what he sees as "the risk of doing nothing." NPR News reports.

While Secretary Rice and other diplomats pushed forward with their draft U.N. resolution for a cease-fire, fighting was particularly fierce on both sides of the border. Israeli bombs killed at least 19 people in Lebanon. And Hezbollah fired its deadliest barrage of rockets yet at Israeli targets, claiming 15 lives. NPR's Eric Westervelt joins us from northern Israel.