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Sierra Leone's education minister and MIT graduate David Moinina Sengeh is shooting for the moon when it comes to his country's future, from schools to health-care to ... space travel.

After the indictment news broke, the Trump GOP machine rolled out a political playbook meant to insulate him with his base. It may work, but his brand is toxic with much of the rest of Americans.

Nancy Pelosi led highly pivotal moments in recent U.S. political history. Here, a look at Pelosi's career and its impact on that history.

As a young, black man living in Georgia's Jim Crow era, Winfred Rembert experienced an unforgettable trauma. "I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me," he told StoryCorps.

Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million a year — the second deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19. Using immune cells and mRNA technology, scientists in South Africa are working on a new vaccine.

A mother and her young son were found dead in July, apparently of starvation. The case has refocused attention on the circumstances of defectors, who often struggle to start new lives in the South.

Both parties in Virginia and New Jersey were left to contemplate how Republicans ran well without Trump on the ballot or in office, while Democrats found it hard to hold recent gains in the suburbs.

A station to detect nuclear weapons tests picked up the volcanic eruption in Tonga from Antarctica. Some experts say the blast could be more than 50 megatons, while NASA estimates 6-10 megatons.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who denied entreaties to overturn the 2020 race, faces a primary challenge from one of the nation's preeminent election deniers, Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Republican Tennessee Rep. Jody Barrett about his vote to expel two Democratic colleagues over leading a gun control protest on the House floor.