Nigeria has a booming film industry, but critics of Nollywood (ph) say its biggest productions often emphasize a glitzy version of Nigerian life. Now an emerging film festival in the city of Lagos, ...

Volunteering doesn't just benefit the people you are helping. It also improves your own health. Research shows people who do things for others have better brain and heart health.

North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

In the wake of Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against co-star Justin Baldoni, more actresses are speaking up about their own similar experiences on set.

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

Congress has passed the Social Security Fairness Act and it eliminates provisions that deny social security recipients from getting the full amount of what they've paid into the system.

The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic ...

Named for the former Browns owner who moved the team to Baltimore in 1996, the Modell law requires Ohio owners whose teams play in taxpayer-funded stadiums to get permission from their home city or ...

More than 1.3 million people were plunged into darkness early Tuesday. Failure of an underground power line is believed to be ...

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has ...

NPR's health reporters followed the emerging science on what keeps our brains and our minds healthy. Here are highlights of ...

Dual-licensed Ohio dispensaries have made more than $200 million worth of non-medical marijuana sales as of mid-December, ...