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A new study suggests there is far more plastic in the Atlantic Ocean than scientists estimated earlier, especially tiny pieces of plastic that can end up inside fish and other animals.

An appeals court has given the ride-hailing companies more time to fight a judge's order that they reclassify their drivers as employees to comply with state law.

A look at the Latino vote during the Democratic presidential primary election, and a story about the asylum-seekers allowed to wait in Santa Fe amid "Remain in Mexico" policy.

If you're a lazy student, it's your lucky day. The University of Fine Arts in Hamburg is offering "idleness grants" of up to 1,600 euros for participants to commit to inactivity.

A single stalk of corn growing off the curb of an intersection in Sioux Falls, S.D., gained local fame for its perseverance. When it was uprooted, the the community rushed to save it.

The DNC has ended, and Democrats are running louder and louder on the issue of voting rights and what they say are attempts to suppress their ballots.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a longtime Republican donor, controls the U.S. Postal Service at a time when mail-in voting is central to the presidential election.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma about changes to the USPS and what he intends to ask Postmaster General Louis DeJoy when he appears before a Senate panel.

The postmaster general committed to delivering the nation's election mail securely, at his first public remarks since stopping the operational changes he instituted this summer at the Postal Service.

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has arrived in Berlin following initial resistance from medical officials in Siberia.