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A new study documents that infected hamsters, imported from the Netherlands, passed the virus on to humans. Previously only minks had been identified as a source of animal-to-human transmission.

Six Democratic presidential candidates will participate in the last debate before the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night in Des Moines, as the campaign has gotten more combative among top contenders.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House in London, about European countries' actions around the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The ruling by a U.S. district judge puts a spotlight on a species whose recovery from near-extinction has been heralded as a historic conservation success.

Wisconsin's $4.5 billion deal with Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn is the largest a state has ever signed with a foreign company. Are such tax-incentive deals effective ways to gain much-needed jobs?

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Afshon Ostovar, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, about the accidental shooting-down of an Iran Air passenger jet by the U.S. Navy in 1988.

Iowa's Democratic Party plans to use a smartphone app in its upcoming caucuses. Despite warnings about cybersecurity since 2016, party bosses are sanguine.

Author John McPhee tells us why he is undertaking what he calls an "old-man project" — writing about the scraps of unwritten stories he's thought about over the years.

Virginia Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Texas Republican Chip Roy say their bill to ban lawmakers from picking stocks is picking up steam. Top leaders have now signed on, showing momentum.

Continuing her "No Place Like Home" series, NPR's Susan Stamberg speaks with architect Sarah Susanka, who describes the theory and technique behind designing spaces that feel like home.