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Electric scooters have become the latest scourge in Paris. Startups have flooded the city, leading to accidents, injuries and anger. Broken scooters litter pavements or get tossed into the Seine.

India has banned "triple talaq," a way Muslim men divorce their wives by saying the Arabic word for divorce three times. Home to 180+ million Muslims, India was one of the last places this was legal.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with reporter Sharon Otterman of The New York Times about how young children often die after being left in hot cars by their parents and what can be done to stop it.

President Trump says the Texas congressman he planned to nominate as the nation's intelligence chief will remain in Congress. Rep. John Ratcliffe was facing criticism for his limited experience.

Will Hurd, the only black Republican in the House of Representatives, is retiring. To talk about Hurd's departure and the future of the GOP, NPR's Ari Shapiro is joined by former Rep. Carlos Curbelo.

Saoirse Kennedy Hill died Thursday in Hyannis Port, after police received a call about an unresponsive person on the Kennedy compound, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office.

The president's Republican allies in the Senate never appeared to warm up to the Texas congressman, and news reports suggested he had overstated his terrorism-fighting qualifications.

It’s not uncommon for many Illinois farmers to ship much, or even all, of their commodities along the Illinois River. So a plan to close the river in 2020…

An interdisciplinary team in San Francisco uses acupressure, massage, counseling and other methods, as well as medicine, to help kids get relief from chronic pain. But such pediatric centers are rare.

Charles King tells the story of Franz Boas' powerful challenge to racial science — and of how others like Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston contributed to that project.