Author: NPR News

A new study finds that about half of the physical variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age.

Much of the turkey’s early history is shrouded in uncertainty, historians and etymologists say — which is particularly true of how the bird got its name.

Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon, amid Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road.

Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that punishes femicide with life in prison. The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women.