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Following a grant from Southwest Airlines, the city of Jacksonville is announcing more upgrades to downtown’s Hemming Park.The plaza that touches City…

NPR's Michel Martin talks with adjunct professor Jimi Izrael, Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak and author Doyin Richards about Ben Carson, as well as the U.S. obsession with youth sports.

Several years ago, two scientists locked themselves in a light-free room for a week to test a treatment they believed could cure amblyopia, or lazy eye. Now, they're recruiting more people to try it.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Benjamin Chavis Jr., one of the organizers of the Million Man March in 1995, and a consultant for the anniversary march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

"I'm uncomfortable with that" is a courteous way to express objections. But this year's Nobel Prize in Literature makes Michel Martin wonder: Does chasing "comfort" cut us off from difficult truths?

A wave of migrants are fleeing El Salvador, one of the deadliest places in the world. Among them are a mother and her teenage daughters, split between two countries, trying to outrun gang violence.

Good CPR requires 100 to 120 chest compressions per minute. If you go too fast or too slow it's not as effective. Researchers say using a metronome helps medical providers maintain the right pace.

The reports released in Cleveland find a white police officer acted within reason in the shooting death of Tamir Rice in 2014. Rice was fatally shot after his toy gun was mistaken for a weapon.

Adopted out of a Korean orphanage by different American families, sisters Meagan Hughes and Holly Hoyle O'Brien found each other again while working on the same floor at a hospital in Sarasota.

Before Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Houston Astros and Kansas City Royals on Sunday, Bush who is 91, uses a wheelchair and wears a neck brace, threw out the first pitch.