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Authorities in Beijing deployed armed guards and closed some streets. The embassy did not give any further details on the threat.

That $2,300 rug with a faded floral pattern at West Elm? The $50 picture frame made of bone at Bloomingdale's? Both handcrafted by artisans in India.

The mites that live on our faces may help reveal where our ancestors came from. It wouldn't be the first time that creepy crawlies have revealed something more than skin deep about the human past.

Some are sad; some are happy. All of them are worth a few minutes of your time.

For more than a decade, a rowing coach in Oregon has been teaching teenagers the value of hard work with tough love that sticks.

At a crowded mall in Charlotte, Christmas Eve shoppers scattered after shots were fired, and an off-duty officer fatally shot a man who pointed a gun in his direction.

Kermit Travers, 78, one of the last African-American skipjack captains, reflects on his nearly 60 years harvesting oysters on the Chesapeake Bay.

Artist Rogan Brown peers into the invisible worlds of microbes, then uses their forms as the inspiration for large paper sculptures that seem at once familiar and profoundly alien.

A new report from the Pew Research Center shows a growth spurt for Islam — and a change in the hub of Christianity.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with Geoffrey Cowan, author of "Let the People Rule," on Teddy Roosevelt's invention of the modern political primary.