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A small North Carolina town is suing Duke Energy for costs from climate change, claiming the utility knew its fossil fuel power plants were heating the planet and deceived the public.

This is the first time Africa CDC has announced a "continental emergency." The World Health Organization is considering a similar declaration.

In North Carolina a rehab program uses drug offenders as care-givers for elderly and disabled patients. The participants work more than 100 hours a week without pay taking care of patients and dispensing the same drugs that they were addicted to. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Reveal's reporter Shoshana Walter about her investigation.

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently burned areas.

Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.

In theaters this weekend: A live-action How to Train Your Dragon, a matchmaker rom-com Materialists, an adaptation of Stephen King's The Life of Chuck, and Ana de Armas stars in a John Wick spin-off.

All three major Senate Democratic candidates have said they’ve spoken to Durbin about an endorsement, but it’s unclear whether the senator will choose a side in a competitive race that is also becoming one of the most expensive in the country.

NPR's David Greene talks to Irish Times journalist Hugh Linehan after exit polls in Ireland's parliamentary elections showed the top parties are in a very close race.

In the first feature film co-directed by an Israeli and an Iranian, Tatami, an Iranian judoka must choose between her country and a run for the gold at the World Judo Championships.

The Texas House of Representatives is at a standstill, after Democratic members left the state to block a vote on redrawing Texas's congressional maps midway through the special session.