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When we invented shoes, we slipped a surface between ourselves and the world. Ever wonder if this is the moment mankind fell from grace? No? Well, for better or worse, NPR's Colin Dwyer has.

It's over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in much of the Midwest, South and East, and the culprit is hot air trapped under an atmospheric pressure lid that heats it up even further.

At least 27 people were injured in the shooting. Police now believe there was only one shooter, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man, born and raised in Munich.

Uncovering the layers of weirdness in the many fights over the ways music was employed as theater during this week's Republican national convention.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Sinan Ciddi, executive director of the Institute for Turkish Studies at Georgetown University, about Turkey's travel ban on the country's academics and crackdown on academic freedoms.

Hillary Clinton announced Friday via Twitter that Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine will be her running mate. Clinton made her vice presidential announcement after a campaign event in Tampa, Fla.

Who is Tim Kaine, and what does he bring to the Democratic presidential ticket? NPR's Mara Liasson provides answers.

A new report reveals where the world stands in the fight against extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.

AIDS is the biggest killer of young women in southern Africa, where many are sexually abused. The CEO of a nonprofit is trying to tip the balance to women with an unlikely tool: a vaginal ring.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine's positions on Wall Street reforms and trade deals are already drawing the ire of groups who had backed Clinton's primary rival Bernie Sanders.