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August Engelhardt believed coconuts were a nutritional and spiritual panacea. So in 1902, he sailed to the South Pacific to start a utopian cult that survived only on the fruit. It ended calamitously.

At the Republican Jewish Coalition's candidate forum Thursday, Trump spoke about his Jewish daughter as well as the threat of terrorism and U.S. policy in Israel.

Hospitals have averted many types of injuries where clear preventive steps have been identified. But complications with less clear-cut solutions remain a problem, a government report finds.

For the poor, a court fine — for a minor infraction like a traffic ticket — can be much more difficult to pay than for the rich. The White House brought together a group to talk about solutions.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Patrick Baccari, who shared a cubicle with Syed Rizwan Farook, the suspect in the shooting in San Bernardino shooting, and was in the bathroom when the violence began.

NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson tells host Kelly McEvers about the latest that's known about Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.

Swiss police, on behalf of U.S. authorities, arrested soccer federation Vice Presidents Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout in Zurich. Altogether, 27 officials are now named in the indictment.

The shootings in San Bernardino have raised a familiar question, one that a linguist and a political scientist say keeps coming up because the line can be tough to draw.

What film would be crazy enough to schedule its release on the same day as the new Star Wars? Why, it's Sisters, the new film from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Ali Rezaian brought to Iran's Mission at the United Nations a petition for his brother's release that has been signed by 500,000 people.