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Astronomers have known about the powerful pulses but had never been able to catch one in the act to help figure out what's producing them. Last year, they got one.

Andrea Towson, who has used heroin off and on for 30 years, is eager to get treatment. "I just want to wake up and eat breakfast and be normal, no matter what that might be," she says.

Ramon Castro, the elder brother of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, died on Tuesday at age 91.

Hayden is a former president of the American Library Association and is currently CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.

Eleven leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been indicted on conspiracy charges related to government nutrition assistance programs and money laundering.

U.S and European officials are worried about what that could mean for the region. David Greene talks to Mohamad Ali Harissi, Libya bureau chief of Agence France Presse, an international news agency.

A team of health experts is tracking down mothers who had babies with microcephaly to try to prove or debunk the link to Zika virus.

A blogger for the website Eater claims the phrase "breakfast taco" originated in Austin, Texas. But San Antonians dispute that — saying their city is the true birthplace.

After NPR reported Bob Ebeling's story on the anniversary of the Challenger explosion, hundreds of people responded. Ebeling, now 89, says those letters "helped bring my worrisome mind to ease."

Protests around the Academy Awards' trouble with racial representation feel like a fresh, contemporary controversy, but they go back almost a half-century.