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The fight over who will nominate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's successor intensified Tuesday after President Obama said he intended to nominate the next justice. But on Wednesday, Senate Republicans seemed to back away from initial calls for the next president to name Scalia's successor.

NPR looks back on the first time the term "iPhone" was heard on our airwaves.

The question of what caused Easter Island's demise is a matter of hot debate. War is often blamed, but new research suggests that obsidian blades on the island were used for farming — not fighting.

With the GOP's South Carolina primary days away, the Republican rivals have traded heated threats over an ad run by the Cruz campaign that paints Trump as pro-choice.

The explosion in the capital, Ankara, has also wounded more than 60 others, according to Turkey's deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmuş.

A man's testosterone level drops as he ages, but boosting it with supplements has been controversial. The first year of data from a big study now suggests a modest boost in libido for some men.

The hackers used a malware that locks systems by encrypting files. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a ransom of 40 bitcoins to obtain the decryption key.

A proposal being launched Thursday could result in boxes that subscribers could buy, not just rent, and that could provide streaming online content alongside traditional cable channels.

Despite changes after the 2008 financial crisis, Neel Kashkari, one of the leading figures in the federal bailout, says major banks are still at risk. "I don't think we've gone far enough," he says.

Leaders from the European Union are meeting to consider how to tackle the refugee crisis. Steve Inskeep talks to Peter Wittig, Germany's ambassador to the U.S. about the refugee crisis in Europe.