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American Haley Anderson has prepared for all the challenges she can expect in the open-water swim. The goal: improve on her 2012 performance, where she missed out on gold by four-tenths of a second.

Kikue Takagi narrowly survived the atomic bomb that killed her classmates. Soon after she moved to California, where she worked for many years at Disneyland. Now in her 80s, she's back in Hiroshima.

Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city destroyed by an American atomic bomb in the closing days of World War II.

Developing countries have been invaded by 200-pound Nile perch, pretty flowers and beavers. A new study asks: What's the impact?

Also, if you're headed back to a physical workplace, how do you keep safe? And do you need to have a mask on all the time at work?

Billions of Indians face a strict lockdown. Those in quarantine have their own set of concerns about unsafe conditions.

The big unknown for Democrats is whether organizing from your laptop is just as effective as pounding the pavement.

Researchers say airborne transmission is possible, especially in cramped indoor settings, but it's unclear how much it contributes to the spread. Here's how to lower your risks, just in case.

Half of American Indians living in majority-Native areas say they or a family member feels he or she has been treated unfairly by the courts, according to an NPR poll.

President Trump has praised the preaching of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote that "a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether."