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Historian Fernando Cervantes marshals an enormous array of primary and secondary sources to tell the story of the decades that followed Christopher Columbus' arrival to the New World.

On Sept 15, 2001, a causeway bridge leading from Port Isabel to South Padre Island collapsed and killed eight people. Twenty years later, survivors and rescuers can talk about it for the first time.

Batting slumps can be all too common in professional baseball, as many frustrated players from the Aberdeen Arsenal have discovered. In the fourth of a series of summer commentaries about this new minor league team, NPR's Neal Conan talks about the physical and psychological forces behind a batting slump.

Oregon lawmakers have passed a sweeping new plan to prevent more wildfires like last year. But some are pushing back against proposed mandates to keep homes from burning.

Marking the latest step in the commercialization of space, the SpaceX mission has launched four civilians, including a billionaire CEO, a physician assistant and a geoscientist.

The ex-chief prosecutor in Haiti was asking a judge to bar the prime minister from leaving the country until he agreed to submit to questioning about the July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

A Norman man was sentenced Friday in the Northern District of Oklahoma for leading a ring of online money launderers.

Abortion providers in states within driving distance of Texas say they're seeing an uptick in patients.

That could be putting vulnerable families in harm's way.

Pennsylvania traps and tags black bears each year to estimate the overall population and help guide management decisions. After the state placed limits on bear hunting, the population has taken off.

Several states are moving to make it easier for homeowners to strike language in the fine print of home deeds that restricts sales to people of color.

A new study shows more than half of young people say climate change makes them feel afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless and helpless. And government inaction in particular makes them worried.