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Two recent studies comparing genetic cancer tests suggest that doctors need to be careful about assuming the results provide a complete picture for selecting among treatments options.

A grenade-shaped trailer hitch, a replica exploding vest, and dead seahorses in a bottle are a few of the strangest items that Transportation Security Administration officers encountered this year.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, about Russia and Iran's roles in the Syrian war.

Eight percent of respondents in a recent national poll said they or someone in their household had imported a prescription drug to the U.S. at some point. Are the deals as good as they seem?

Google sifted through 5 million satellite images to create a series of zoomable, time-lapse videos depicting the human impact on the planet.

Britain is reeling from a scandal involving allegations of sexual abuse in youth soccer. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Guardian reporter Daniel Taylor, who broke the story.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about the growing antagonism between the US and Russia.

The sugar industry in Hawaii dominated the state's economy for over a century. But it has shrunk in recent years. Now, the last of the state's sugar mills has wrapped up its final harvest.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Greg Poling of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative about China installing weapons on islands in the South China Sea, and seizing a U.S. underwater drone.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving a notorious 1984 murder in Washington, DC. The key issue involves whether prosecutors failed to turn over favorable evidence to the defendants.