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In a victory for LGBTQ rights, South Korea's supreme court ruled that transgender people have the right to change their legal sex status, regardless of whether they have underage children.

Before they were driven to extinction, giant elephant birds roamed Madagascar, weighing up to 2,000 pounds and towering 10 feet tall. A new analysis gives hints as to how many species there once were.

A major in the Army Reserves and financial counselor with the Army allegedly used his access to beneficiaries of deceased servicemembers to defraud them and enrich himself, prosecutors allege.

Awards season has offered NPR's Scott Simon the opportunity to reflect on the number of British actors playing Americans in films and television shows, and wonder where the American actors are.

In 2018, a photo of Parker Curry looking at a portrait of Michelle Obama went viral. Within a week, she got to meet the first lady. Parker tells the story in a new book she co-authored with her mom.

"Yesterday was the best and the worst day of my life," wrote Carmona, who scored the only goal in Spain's historic win over England.

HGTV, which bought the house in 2018, paid well over asking then poured nearly $2 million into a renovation to recreate the 1970s set. But it seems nostalgia was not enough to cover the asking price.

The clash between science and religious belief lies at the heart of Sarah Perry's new novel, set in a marshy, windswept English town menaced by a serpentine monster that may or may not truly exist.

After the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minnesota last year, terms to describe bridge conditions — such as "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" — peppered news stories. But what do those terms mean? Here, an explanation of bridge lingo.

The legendary jazz pianist and composer is best known for his time in New York City, where he developed his eccentric musical genius. But 90 years ago today, Thelonious Monk was born in the Southern city of Rocky Mount, N.C.