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A suicide car bomber rams a barricade outside a hotel full of Americans, and the explosion kills at least six bystanders and injures dozens more. It is the second car bombing in the past four days. NPR's Tom Bullock reports.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with geologist Stephen Johnston about how the tsunami in Indonesia overnight was triggered.

A huge hit upon its release, the 1949 musical South Pacific still resonates with contributors to The Race Card Project — particularly a song about how prejudice is learned, not innate.

Margaret Hamburg ended her run this week as one of the longest serving Food and Drug Administration commissioners in recent decades.

By Jason Beaubien and Katie KnappOmaha, NE – The eight people who died in Wednesday's shootings inside the Von Maur department store are:Gary Scharf, 48,…

Six U.S. soldiers die after their Black Hawk helicopter goes down near Tikrit. The Black Hawk may have been hit by hostile fire before crashing into a riverbank near Saddam Hussein's hometown. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Policymakers and scientists are strongly criticizing comments by Michael Griffin, the head of NASA. In an earlier interview with NPR, he said that he's not sure global warming is an issue that the space agency — or humans — need to "wrestle with."

You know that feeling when someone you're dating does this one thing that you just can't look past? Here's what scientists say about why we react this way and whether the feeling is reversible.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to reporter Daniel Estrin about the latest out of Israel. Estrin spoke to the murdered Palestinian teen's American cousin, who was beaten and put under house arrest.

What was supposed to be a caving excursion in Missouri turned into a rescue mission after a dog was found curled up and malnourished about 500 feet into the cave system.