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Criticized for being affiliated with the alt-right, the social site Gab now reports 170,000 users. It has found a niche among some conservatives and others who feel stifled by Facebook and Twitter.

Are backyard chickens the great American bird flu threat? A poultry expert weighs in on how people who keep flocks of chickens at home in the United States can protect their birds -- and their families and neighbors -- from the threat of avian flu.

In 1999, Tom DeBaggio was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. He was 57. Soon after the diagnosis, he began talking with NPR about his illness. He wanted to document his decline, to break through what he called the "shame and silence" of the disease. Now he can't talk, walk or feed himself.

When it mattered most, Nixon and his crew found that people who might have been political allies in the past were not especially sympathetic to his case.

The way Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden announced the deaths of terrorist chiefs revealed much about their own leadership.

Sordid allegations of bribery and self-enrichment against the scions of Pakistan's rich and powerful highlight how entrenched corruption is there. But the difficulty of rooting out such misconduct is embodied in the career of one former police officer and the price he has paid for his diligence.

A light rail station in a San Francisco suburb had a nasty problem: pigeon poop. The solution: A trained hawk scares the pigeons away. Commuters now treat the hawk and his handler like celebrities.

A neighbor recalls the girl saying in her final moments, "Why did this happen to me? I didn't do anything bad to them."

As rescuers still pulled some from the rubble, Turkish officials detained those allegedly involved in constructing buildings that toppled down and crushed their occupants.

Scans show that people who spend untold hours in prayer or meditation go dark in the parietal lobe, the brain area that helps create a sense of self. A researcher says these people may be rewriting the neural connections in their brains — altering how they see the world.