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The world's worst cyclones hit Bangladesh. Floods are devastating. Yet death tolls are falling. The country's climate disaster strategies offer lessons for all coastal communities.

Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press about a rare, long-track tornado that left a trail of devastation across western Mississippi on Friday night.

A look at how Republicans are reacting to former President Donald Trump's possible indictment.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Mark Pocan, Democratic congressman of Wisconsin, about this week's hearing that featured TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and how he thinks lawmakers should regulate the app.

The K-pop phenomenon BTS is on a break right now. But their fans are not — especially thousands of them in the Philippines, who call themselves the "titas" or aunties of BTS. All of them are over 30.

A decade after a landmark report on Americans' shorter lives, the problem has only gotten worse. Unlike other wealthy nations, U.S. life expectancy has not bounced back from the pandemic.

The NBA's Sacramento Kings are close to clinching a playoff spot, which is saying a lot. The have the longest running playoff drought — 16 years — of any U.S. major professional sports league team.

After a self-detonating drone killed an American contractor and wounded five soldiers, U.S. forces launched a retaliatory strike in Syria against a facility being used by Iranian-backed militias.

Florida lawmakers consider a bill to restrict "period talk" in schools; foreclosures as code enforcement; Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus spreading in Florida.