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Fri, 07 Mar 2025

It's been a little more than a week since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

Like a lot of economists, Mark Zandi, with Moody's Analytics, thinks President Trump's across-the-bo...

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

A hundred minutes — that's how long President Trump had the floor — literally — last night.A h...

Tue, 04 Mar 2025

After the Trump-Zelenskyy blow-up on Friday, European leaders held emergency talks in London to put ...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

People who work for the federal court system don't have the same kinds of job protections that most ...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

Unlike any other religious leader around the world, the leader of the world's one billion Catholics ...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

On Tuesday, President Trump will address Congress and the nation in a major speech, where he'll sum ...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

On Tuesday, 21 DOGE employees resigned. NPR spoke to one of them who says she felt the new administr...

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump at th...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

President Trump's calls for the U.S. to take over Greenland have sparked alarm and outrage.Denmark, ...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

On Friday, Donald Trump fired Chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff CQ Brown, along with several ot...

Sun, 23 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump's tariffs and comments about turning Canada into the 51st state have tested U...

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

"The Department of Education is a big con job." That's just one of the things President Trump has sa...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Three yea...

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

Is the United States headed toward autocracy?That's a question prompted by a steady stream of execut...

Tue, 18 Feb 2025

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, along withother top officials spent much of Tuesday weighing whether...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with ...

Sun, 16 Feb 2025

Across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of federal workers face uncertainty amid ...

Sat, 15 Feb 2025

There are at least two million people in America who have thoughts and ideas they can't put into wor...

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump is now chairman of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, ...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

Panama has been looking for solutions to a long-term problem. Every time a ship passes through the P...

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

The Gaza Strip – ground zero of Israel's war with Hamas – is only about twice the size of Washin...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025

President Trump's blizzard of executive orders has run into a snowplow of legal challenges. There ar...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is quickly expanding its reach through the federal g...

Sun, 09 Feb 2025

Project 2025, is a 900-plus page blueprint for a conservative President. It was unveiled in the spri...

Sun, 09 Feb 2025

For centuries, scholars only had one version of the life of Margery Kempe, an English mystic who liv...

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach. America First, Isolationist, t...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

As President Trump dismantles Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices at the federal level, o...

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

President Trump floated two stunning ideas about Gaza on Tuesday. The first is he said the U.S. woul...

Tue, 04 Feb 2025

In Washington these days, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere.In the 15 days Donald Trump has been back...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two ocean...

Sun, 02 Feb 2025

Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority...

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

Schools, corporations, even churches, are wrestling with how to approach issues of racial and social...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

What went wrong in the midair collision between a military helicopter and a passenger jet over Reaga...

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced senators today in a contentious confirmation hearing to serve as Health ...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

Country music singer Charley Crockett was born and raised in Texas, grew up in a single-wide trailer...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

Susie Wiles is doing something no woman has done before. She is the first in history to hold the pos...

Sun, 26 Jan 2025

Former President Joe Biden championed DEI programs–initiatives aimed at diversity, equity inclusio...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

As evacuation orders are lifted, people in Los Angeles are returning to their homes--if their homes ...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

What do Babygirl, Singing in the Rain and Apocalypse Now have in common? They've all been overlooked...

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

When Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, he was flanked by billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and M...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

President Donald J. Trump began taking decisive steps to implement his agenda hours after being swor...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

Donald Trump returns to Washington newly empowered. The Republican party has remade itself in his im...

Sun, 19 Jan 2025

When he ran for office in 2020, President Joe Biden vowed to turn the page on then president Donald ...

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Will Rogers State Historic Park is a vast stretch of natural space in the Santa Monica Mountains. It...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

At the time we publish this episode, Israel's government has yet to accept the terms of the long-neg...

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

Confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet picks are in full swing on Capitol Hill with a number of t...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

On a shelf in his office at CIA headquarters, Director Bill Burns keeps a tiny scaled model of a hou...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

"Wildfire" is the word we tend to use when we talk about what Los Angeles has been dealing with the ...

Sun, 12 Jan 2025

From handling crises in the rail and airline industries to overseeing the distribution of billions o...

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

While the debate over homeless policy plays out across the country, Project HOME has offered resourc...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfwa...

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

Extremely dry conditions coupled with high winds have led to an explosive wildfire situation in sout...

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

In Washington, D.C., the federal government is closed – as are most of the schools in the area. Th...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

What happened on January 6, 2021? There have been news reports, documentaries and witness testimonie...

Sun, 05 Jan 2025

Billionaire Elon Musk begins 2025 as one of the most influential people in the United States. He's d...

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

As president, Jimmy Carter promised always to tell the American people the truth about what was happ...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

New Orleans is still reeling from the New Year's Day attack that killed 14 people on Bourbon Street....

Wed, 01 Jan 2025

So much can happen in a year. While we all wish for a happy New Year, that's not always the case. We...

Tue, 31 Dec 2024

Most years bring both good and bad experiences. But sometimes, it's the challenges of a bad year tha...

Tue, 31 Dec 2024

Every year, more and more Americans embark on Dry January – a whole month of giving up alcohol.It'...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.He was the nation's 39th president, in offi...

Sun, 29 Dec 2024

When Syria's dictatorship fell in early December, celebrations broke out around the world - includin...

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

The holiday season is joyous – and also expensive.From steep flight prices to a laundry list of pr...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

It can be hard to resist jumping on the whole "New Year, New You" bandwagon. But if you've decided 2...

Wed, 25 Dec 2024

What makes a movie a Christmas movie?When the movie Die Hard was released on Blu Ray a few years bac...

Tue, 24 Dec 2024

Whether you play it on loop or whether it drives you crazy, there's no question Mariah Carey's "All ...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

By most objective measures, the US economy is in good shape. Employers added about 2 million jobs th...

Sun, 22 Dec 2024

It was a hectic election season in America, to put it lightly, and we're not alone. What do this yea...

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Given the fact that it seems like Hollywood churns out nothing but sequels, you would think the indu...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

At the start of this year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was facing a crisis. Just a few ...

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

How does fitness and movement change across the lifespan? According to NPR's Allison Aubrey, who c...

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

With just a handful of shopping days until Christmas, millions are making last minute online purchas...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

Donald Trump becomes the 47th President of the United States in just over a month.Throughout his cam...

Sun, 15 Dec 2024

For many of us, Christmas songs are dominating our playlists this week. There's the one you start he...

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

The brutal regime of Bashar al Assad fell over the weekend with dizzying speed. Syrians within the c...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

FBI Director Christopher Wray announced yesterday that he will resign before President-elect Trump t...

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

One of the triumphs of modern medicine is that children diagnosed with cancer today have an 85 perce...

Tue, 10 Dec 2024

Five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan, police arreste...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

For half a century, one family has brutally ruled Syria. Nearly overnight, that reign ended. Syria i...

Sun, 08 Dec 2024

You never know if president-elect Donald Trump is bluffing, but when you have billions of dollars on...

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

An epic poem and an epic reunion come to the big screen. The Return looks for new meaning in Homer'...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

Syrian anti-government insurgents claim they have entered the city of Hama — a major Syrian govern...

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

At the time we publish this episode, Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's pick to run the Pentagon,...

Tue, 03 Dec 2024

Just before Donald Trump took office the first time, he held a press conference, announcing that he ...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

Hunter Biden no longer has to worry about going to prison.That's because his father President Joe Bi...

Sun, 01 Dec 2024

Donald Trump promises to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants once he returns to the White Hou...

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

If you've followed Stephen Colbert's career closely, you might have picked up on something. It's the...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

Thirteen bestselling cookbooks, a thriving food business in the Hamptons that she sold decades ago, ...

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

On a Sunday in mid-July, Pastor Chris Morgan welcomed worshipers to Christ United Methodist Church i...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024

In her new memoir, Angela Merkel writes about the many dilemmas she had to navigate as Chancellor of...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

President-elect Trump's promises more ICE workplace raids like the ones in 2019. This time, advocate...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

The movie version of the Broadway smash Wicked hits screens Friday, just in time for the holidays. S...

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

The Apple TV series "Bad Sisters" debuted two years ago. There were laughs. There was murder. And th...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

If you're tracking Donald Trump's cabinet picks, you may have noticed common threads among them: top...

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Last week British surgeon Nizam Mamode testified in front of a committee in the U.K. Parliament. Dr....

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

What does it take to run the Department of Defense? That's a question that will be at the heart of P...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

President-elect Trump has vowed to elimanate the Department of Education. The DOE oversees everythin...

Sun, 17 Nov 2024

When compared to some of president-elect Trump's other cabinet picks, Senator Marco Rubio for Secret...

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

This week President-elect Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to run the Dep...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris made history as the first woman of color to lead the ticket of a major ...

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

Since Donald Trump won the presidency last week, Democrats have been pointing fingers, laying blame ...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024

Wicked – the 20-year-old – smash hit on Broadway turns the story of the "Wizard of Oz" on its he...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

During the campaign, President-elect Trump called for reporters to be imprisoned and for media outle...

Sun, 10 Nov 2024

Today, we're sharing an episode of Trump's Trials for listeners.Now that Donald Trump is headed back...

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Referred to as one of the most fascinating librarians in American history, Belle da Costa Greene is ...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

In just over 70 days, Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States will become the 47th, an...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

In the days leading up to election night, news outlets across the country were predicting a historic...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

The homestretch of the presidential campaign means huge rallies, a final barrage of campaign ads, an...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

Quincy Jones, the famed music producer who helped artists dominate popular music for half a century,...

Sun, 03 Nov 2024

In these closing days of the presidential election, polling across the board has nearly every swing ...

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

When the 2024 presidential campaign began, it looked a lot like the last one. Former President Donal...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their suppo...

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

On Tuesday night, one week before election day, Vice President Kamala Harris made her closing argume...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state. As early voting c...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

At a recent Trump rally, many speakers leaned into racist, misogynistic and vulgar rhetoric. So what...

Sun, 27 Oct 2024

Evangelical and Pentecostal conservatives are a powerful force in Republican politics.They've stuck ...

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Election day is almost here, and we could soon find out who will become our next president. But winn...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention o...

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

If you had any doubts, we can clear them up now. Emo music not only still exists — it's thriving. ...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

In his posthumous memoir, Patriot, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote - "If they do fina...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

An NPR investigation has found more than 100 times when former president Donald Trump has said his r...

Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Millions of ballots are tabulated at the Maricopa County Tabulation Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Insi...

Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Two decades ago, only a third of Latinos believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Tod...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

Today, Israel announced that they had killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas.Sinwar came to power ...

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

"Israel has a right to defend itself and its people." It's a phrase that's been spoken by Israel's a...

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

Legendary journalist Bob Woodward's new book War, like so many of his books about the American presi...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

Vice President Harris' multiracial identity has not been a major focal point during her short campai...

Sun, 13 Oct 2024

If you eat salmon, there's a good chance that it comes from a salmon farm in Norway. The country has...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconce...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

Hurricane Milton tore a path of destruction through Florida late Wednesday, leaving multiple dead an...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida's central west coast, residents are preparing for the worst. ...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024

In the span of one day, a Category 1 hurricane headed for western Florida escalated to the highest i...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

In a twist that many addiction experts thought impossible, the decades long upward trend of opioid d...

Sun, 06 Oct 2024

The October 7th Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza have changed...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

In a state where every vote matters, campaigns are not only trying to win in counties where they're ...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

Consider This host Ari Shapiro and WUWM's Maayan Silver speak with voters along a 15-mile road that ...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

The effort to recover from Hurricane Helene is only beginning. But neighbors and volunteers from hum...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

The war in the Middle East appears to be widening, almost one year after Hamas launched its attack o...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

In a race where so much of the polling is within the margin of error — it seems as though any one ...

Sun, 29 Sep 2024

Historian Robert Caro's book "The Power Broker" details how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New ...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

When Sean "Diddy" Combs sang about being a bad boy in his 2001 hit, the lyrics were a mission statem...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karim Khan, the lead prosecutor for the International Criminal Co...

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

The share of Americans who are in the workforce today is the highest it's been in decades. But it's ...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Consider This host Mary Louise Kelly wanted to find out what young voters in Georgia are most concer...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

The US is trying to broker an end to the war between Israel and Hamas. Ceasefire talks begin and end...

Sun, 22 Sep 2024

It's been more than two and half years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, th...

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

A few months ago, it was looking like Donald Trump had Georgia all but locked up.Now with Harris in ...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

The biggest city in the country is in the midst of a major political scandal, and things appear to b...

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

Two unusual attacks against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah come at a time when negotiations o...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

A year ago at this time, members of the United Auto Workers Union were feeling powerful and optimist...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

Former President Donald Trump was targeted in what "appears to be an attempted assassination" on Sun...

Sun, 15 Sep 2024

In the new HBO documentary "Stopping the Steal," we hear from Republican officials in Arizona and Ge...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

This time next year, if everything stays on schedule, NASA will send its first crewed mission to the...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Getting older has been a punchline for as long as anyone can remember. And while there are plenty of...

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris was dominant during Tuesday's presidential debate in Philadelphia. Form...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024

There's an old line: "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are?" Well if it's true, then C...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

After days of back and forth, both presidential campaigns finally agreed on the rules for Tuesday n...

Sun, 08 Sep 2024

Ahead of the presidential debate, host Scott Detrow talks to comedians Matt Friend and Allison Reese...

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

We're in a moment where DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) hiring practices mean many different ...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

Project 2025 - you've probably heard about it. It's a roadmap from the conservative Heritage Foundat...

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

It was a night of mourning on Tuesday, when Doug Emhoff, second gentlemen and the first Jewish spous...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024

When Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson entered the national spotlight, she found praise an...

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

For about three weeks in 2000, there were zero measles cases in the United States. It was declared e...

Sun, 01 Sep 2024

Labor Day is considered the beginning of the end of the Presidential election, but as history shows,...

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Raunchy sex comedies had a moment at the end of the 20th century. And perhaps the king of them all, ...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

In 1988, Ben Spencer was sentenced to life in prison for a brutal robbery and murder he has always i...

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

Earlier this month, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and the forme...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

When Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president, his son stole the show.In a vir...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

It's been more than three weeks since the U.S. and Russia completed the largest prisoner swap since ...

Sun, 25 Aug 2024

Both major party presidential nominees Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same side of one is...

Sat, 24 Aug 2024

What happens when political ambition collides with a #MeToo allegation in the Democratic party? Epis...

Sat, 24 Aug 2024

Did Eric Garcetti, a powerful Democrat, lie under oath about a #MeToo scandal in his office? That's ...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

College students are trickling back onto campuses for the fall semester, just months after protests ...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Before she became vice president, Kamala Harris had only ever won elections in California — a soli...

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

Olivia Julianna, 21, is one of more than 200 digital content creators who has been given media crede...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

Earlier this month, student protestors filled the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in opposition to a c...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

They've been called "Hollywood's worst-kept secret." Medications like Ozempic or Mounjaro, which are...

Sun, 18 Aug 2024

The state of the presidential race is a far cry from what it was just a few months ago. Vice Preside...

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Twenty-five years ago this month, one film, and one filmmaker, became synonymous with the big plot t...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Donald Trump is pledging to go further on immigration than he did in his first term as president, if...

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

So often, telling the story of the Israel-Hamas war is reduced to a catalog of numbers.But this war ...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

This week, the Biden administration announced it is taking on more of what it calls "everyday headac...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

By most measures, the new Democratic ticket has had an impressively smooth launch.But there is one c...

Sun, 11 Aug 2024

Overdose death rates have spiked dramatically for young adults, rising 34 percent between 2018 and 2...

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

Three Taylor Swift concerts were canceled in Austria this week, after authorities foiled planned att...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

Ever since women began competing in weightlifting in the Olympics, in the year 2000, only one Americ...

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

Speaker of the House Emerita Nancy Pelosi once told Washington Post Columnist Karen Tumulty quote "N...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris has tapped Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. Democrats hope he can s...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

There are some 43 million refugees in the world, according to the U.N.'s refugee agency.The 37 of th...

Sun, 04 Aug 2024

Over the last decade, calls to tax the rich have grown louder around the world — but the needle ha...

Sat, 03 Aug 2024

Sport Climbing kicks off at the Olympics in Paris next week. It's a strength-to-weight ratio sport. ...

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

If you're not entrenched in the world of video games, you might not realize how much real actors hav...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

On Wednesday in Paris, the U.S. women's water polo team faced off against Italy and proved once agai...

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

In the Middle East, two assassinations in less than 24 hours could transform the region. Israel clai...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

In her childhood in Berkeley, Calif., you can find the seeds of the political leader that Vice Presi...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

For a brief moment, people in the Venezuelan diaspora felt a surge of hope as reports indicated the ...

Sun, 28 Jul 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has a little over a week to pick a running mate to join her on the pres...

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Among the many Democratic Party insiders who publicly or privately urged President Joe Biden to reco...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

Clayton Young and Conner Mantz are longtime training partners and friends. They're also the two fas...

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is barreling towards the Democratic nomination for president.Her Republ...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024

If Kamala Harris officially becomes the Democratic presidential nominee next month, she'll be the fi...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

In just a matter of hours, a Kamala Harris for President campaign has gone from a far-flung possibil...

Sun, 21 Jul 2024

President Biden has made a historic decision to endorse his vice president, Kamala Harris, to take h...

Sun, 21 Jul 2024

A plucky meteorology heroine; a male rival with no shortage of hubris; and some very, very big storm...

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

In 2017, the Larry Nassar scandal rocked the Olympic community. Hundreds of allegations of sexual ab...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

A warming planet is making storms and wildfires more intense, and more destructive. That's making ho...

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

Donald Trump's message for America has long been one of grievance and retribution.What will he say a...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

When President Biden heard that Donald Trump had picked J.D. Vance to be his running mate, he called...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

In the days after the assassination attempt, Donald Trump secured the Republican presidential nomina...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

Shortly after 6pm on Saturday, a would-be assassin took aim at former President Donald Trump at a ca...

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

In the weeks since Biden's disastrous performance in the presidential debate, a steady drip of high-...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Palmer Luckey launched his first tech company as a teenager. That was Oculus, the virtual reality h...

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

Four years after World War II, leaders from Europe and North America formed an alliance largely aime...

Tue, 09 Jul 2024

Former President Trump derided Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as "the woman in Michigan," when t...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

On June 27th, long-simmering concerns about President Biden's age – and whether he's fit to serve ...

Sun, 07 Jul 2024

California recently allocated $12 million for reparations for the state's Black residents as a way t...

Fri, 05 Jul 2024

Students with disabilities often face a tough time getting the services they need at school. When t...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

Extreme wildfires doubled worldwide over the last two decades, according to a new study of NASA sate...

Wed, 03 Jul 2024

This year, more than half the world's population lives in countries that are choosing leaders. And t...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

The Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson called it a wa...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

On Monday the Supreme Court issued its most anticipated decision of the term — expanding the power...

Sun, 30 Jun 2024

More than 50 years of Pride marches, parades, festivals, and now partnership deals with major brands...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

The day after a debate in which he faltered many times, President Joe Biden hit the campaign trail t...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

The surgeon general's office has declared gun violence a national public health crisis. It's the fir...

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Going into the first presidential debate, polls show a close race. A good debate performance could m...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, is designed to provide monthly checks for low income, disabled...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

For decades, people seeking abortions went to specialty clinics like Planned Parenthood. But since ...

Sun, 23 Jun 2024

In early June, President Joe Biden severely restricted asylum requests from migrants attempting to c...

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

The question of how to reconcile Michael Jackson's musical genius with his alleged misconduct is sti...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

Polls – and NPR's own reporting – tell a story of many Americans fatigued by the upcoming presid...

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

This year's college application process was supposed to get easier. That's because last year, the U...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

We are just weeks away from one of the biggest political events of the election campaign season: the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general, has called attention to what he has called the 'youth mental hea...

Sun, 16 Jun 2024

As part of his ongoing look at groundbreaking films from 1999, host Scott Detrow speaks with Kimberl...

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

As the U.K. gears up for a July election, polls show the liberal Labour Party ahead of Prime Ministe...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

After the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel that killed more than 1,100 people, President Joe Bide...

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

America is facing two very different futures on the world stage after November. If former President ...

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

Michael Bommer likely only has a few weeks left to live. A couple years ago, he was diagnosed with t...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

On Saturday, Israeli special forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, killing at least 27...

Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Billions of dollars in federal COVID funding is set to expire for K-12 schools.Educators across the ...

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

With the presidential election approaching, some voters are wondering how we again ended up with Don...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war in Gaza can't end until Israel has destroyed...

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

'Ezra' is a road trip movie, a movie about fathers and sons.Bobby Cannavale plays the father Max, an...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

The 12 New Yorkers who served on the jury for former president Donald Trump's trial, and voted to co...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

When the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s, it had been a decade...

Sun, 02 Jun 2024

The Rosetta Stone, the Kohinoor diamond, sculptures from Greece's Parthenon known as the Elgin Marbl...

Fri, 31 May 2024

After a trial that lasted 21 days and a deliberation that took less than ten hours, a Manhattan jury...

Thu, 30 May 2024

After 10 hours of deliberation, in a historic verdict, a jury of 12 New Yorkers reached a verdict in...

Wed, 29 May 2024

When Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, it heralded an end to racial segregat...

Tue, 28 May 2024

Nearly two dozen witnesses and 21 days of court later, Donald Trump's New York hush money trial is c...

Mon, 27 May 2024

The summer of 2023 saw skylines choked by Canadian wildfire smoke, coral cooked in hot tub-warm ocea...

Sun, 26 May 2024

It seems like every year we hear the same thing: that this will be the busiest summer travel season ...

Fri, 24 May 2024

We bring you a special episode of Trump's Trials. Host Scott Detrow speaks with former Deputy Assist...

Thu, 23 May 2024

Abortion Rights has been a motivating political issue for generations, and this year might be the mo...

Wed, 22 May 2024

Everyone says you live through history, but "I don't think anyone prepared us for this much history,...

Tue, 21 May 2024

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, state laws on abortion have been changing constantly. It will all ...

Mon, 20 May 2024

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, according to state media. Here's how...

Sun, 19 May 2024

A little less than six months out from the general election, it seems like a new poll comes out ever...

Fri, 17 May 2024

Hollywood depictions have long helped inform America's understanding of the Vietnam War.But there wa...

Thu, 16 May 2024

For American Jews who grew up thinking antisemitism was a thing of the past, the last several years ...

Wed, 15 May 2024

A conservative group posted a social media thread showing flyers in a border encampment in Mexico ur...

Tue, 14 May 2024

The Girl Scouts have been part of American childhood for generations. And now that quintessential ex...

Mon, 13 May 2024

America is a land of contradictions; while we're known as a nation that loves to eat, we also live w...

Sun, 12 May 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have turned their attention on Robert F. Kenne...

Fri, 10 May 2024

When Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace hit screens across the country in 1999, Return of the ...

Thu, 09 May 2024

Louis Sahagún first arrived at the Los Angeles Times in his early twenties as a utility worker, swe...

Wed, 08 May 2024

The Biden administration has put a hold on an arms shipment to Israel. A senior administration offi...

Tue, 07 May 2024

Brittney Griner didn't know the flight she was taking to Moscow in February 2022 would upend her lif...

Mon, 06 May 2024

The term "outside agitator" has staying power.It's been used against protestors throughout history, ...

Sun, 05 May 2024

On Friday, China launched its Chang'e-6 mission carrying a probe to the far side of the moon to gath...

Sat, 04 May 2024

Welcome to Wild Card with Rachel Martin. In this first episode, Rachel talks to Jenny Slate, known f...

Fri, 03 May 2024

Larry Demeritte is the first Black trainer participating in the Kentucky Derby in 35 years. And whil...

Thu, 02 May 2024

If you go by headlines, the last 12 months have delivered major wins to organized labor. But despite...

Wed, 01 May 2024

From New York — to Illinois — to Los Angeles — encampments in support of Palestinians dot camp...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

Dame Judi Dench has played everyone from the writer Iris Murdoch to M in the James Bond films. But a...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

Protests against Israel's war in Gaza on college campuses have expanded across the country. They're...

Sun, 28 Apr 2024

Three decades ago, South Africa held its first democratic election, closing the door on the aparthei...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

During the early days of the pandemic, former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins became a familiar voi...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Last year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a strict immigration law making it harder to hire un...

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

One of Richard Nixon's most famous quotes...right up there with "I am not a crook"... had to do with...

Tue, 23 Apr 2024

Americans often rank the economy as a number one voting issue. As part of NPR's "We the Voters" seri...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

The broad outlines of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case have been known for months. Hus...

Sun, 21 Apr 2024

For the last 60 years a transportation revolution has largely passed America by. Bullet trains were ...

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

Civil War, the new A24 film from British director Alex Garland, imagines a scenario that might not s...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

Back in 1999 when Donald Trump was flirting with a presidential run, he was pro-abortion rights. In...

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Salman Rushdie is probably most closely associated with his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, a book in...

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

In 1994, the world watched as genocide unfolded in Rwanda. Nearly one million people died as neighbo...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Iran launched a barrage of more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel over the weekend, saying it w...

Sun, 14 Apr 2024

On Monday, former President Donald Trump will enter a Manhattan courtroom for his first criminal tri...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

For months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been insisting that the goal of Israel's b...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

O.J. Simpson was more than a football star. More than a pop culture icon or a defendant acquitted of...

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

In recent years, the body positivity movement has raised it's profile, especially on social media la...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Many of us don't have the opportunity to handpick our neighbors. We buy or rent a place in a neighbo...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

Researchers are finding that the impact of relationships with siblings —for better or worse — ca...

Sun, 07 Apr 2024

Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience t...

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

The American response to Israel's war with Hamas could be a major factor in the upcoming Congression...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

Bird flu has spread to cows. And now a human has contracted the virus from an infected cow. What ki...

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

The recent transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human raises hopes that liv...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

One week after a massive container ship crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing i...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

When news outlets shut down in a city, that creates what's often called a news desert. But in Richmo...

Sun, 31 Mar 2024

Hawaii is no stranger to extravagant homes owned by the super-rich. But when a tech billionaire star...

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 as the first Black woman ever elected to Congress. Four years ...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

This week Russian authorities extended the detention of American journalist Evan Gershkovich. Autho...

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

People who work on ways to end poverty have been trying a simple approach lately: just giving money ...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after a cargo ship rammed into ...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

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Sun, 24 Mar 2024

Suicide rates for queer and trans people are disproportionately high. They're also routinely targets...

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

In 1974, Stephen King published his first book, "Carrie". But 50 years on, critics still debate if h...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

President Biden just awarded $8.5 billion dollars to the company Intel to help fund semiconductor fa...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

Next week representatives of the Israeli government are scheduled to fly from Tel Aviv to Washington...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024

The way we have bought homes for the last 100 years could change as soon as July. Who wins, who los...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for a quarter century. This weekend's election results confirmed tha...

Sun, 17 Mar 2024

Three solidly blue cities have rolled out crime fighting initiatives that feel more like conservativ...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

When Russia's war in Ukraine began over two years ago, neighboring countries feared that they could ...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

This week marks four years since the outbreak of Covid-19 was officially declared a pandemic. One of...

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

Here's one sign that shrinkflation is no longer just a topic for economics nerds. Cookie Monster rec...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024

Haiti's Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, has announced his resignation. But the country remains in free...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

The holy month of Ramadan begins this week. It is a holy month of worship for Muslims during which t...

Sun, 10 Mar 2024

We're moving closer to the dream of landing humans on Mars. But will sustaining human life on Mars e...

Sat, 09 Mar 2024

As John Kerry leaves his role as the first Presidential Envoy for Climate, has he helped shift us aw...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

When Shogun, James Clavell's best selling novel was adapted into a powerhouse NBC miniseries in 1980...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

On August 6, 1945, a stone-faced President Harry Truman appeared on television and told Americans ab...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

Nikki Haley's announcement that she was suspending her campaign for president didn't come as a surpr...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

This week marks a milestone in the presidential primary process. Fifteen states and one US Territor...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

Former President Donald Trump scored a legal victory today. The Supreme Court ruled 9 to 0 that the...

Sun, 03 Mar 2024

Chances are, this November 5th 2024 is going to feel a lot like November 3rd 2020 — a bit like Gro...

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that's been posed again and again. Carl Sagan posed i...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Here in the US, the average age of retirement is 61. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky passed that...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Despite a last minute agreement to push a deadline for a shutdown, Congress and the White House have...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

The backlash to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling designating frozen embryos has been intense. Republ...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Popular culture is filled with stories of the underground railroad - the legendary secret network th...

Sun, 25 Feb 2024

In the last few years, a new trend has emerged on social media: de-influencing.Instead of selling, d...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

In Kansas City neighborhood organizations do the work of violence prevention one block, and one pers...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Quote – "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." That statement, from Ukrainian Preside...

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Keyser, West Virginia, was once known for coal. But the jobs have been disappearing. First because o...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Brian Mann covers the U-S opioid and fentanyl crisis for NPR. That means he talks to a lot of people...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

Much of the world has spent the weekend mourning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. And aski...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

About two years ago, New Jersey's Democratic Governor Phil Murphy said that the state would be partn...

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Rent has skyrocketed in the United States. That means Americans are handing over a bigger portion of...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

For half a century, during the Cold War, every U-S president painted Russia as the dominant threat. ...

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

One single election does not a trend make. But does Democrat Tom Suozzi's victory in the special el...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

On June 14, Donald Trump will turn 78 years old.Joe Biden turned 81 in November.Whether the candidat...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

The question looming over the war between Israel and Hamas is what will happen what will happen to R...

Sun, 11 Feb 2024

Immigration is one of the main things Americans will be voting on in November. And many are current...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

Hollywood films have long tried to capture America's obsession with its most popular sport. So on th...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Abortion is a personal issue. But it's also political. And few things motivate voters and politician...

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

When it comes to whether or not Trump should appear on presidential ballots, there are at least two ...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024

The U.S. Immigration system isn't working. The last significant reform was in 1986. Presidents and C...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

It was a year ago this month that a Norfolk Southern freight train with 38 cars derailed in East Pal...

Sun, 04 Feb 2024

More than 100 people are killed on U.S. roads every day — more than 40,000 people a year. So, it s...

Sat, 03 Feb 2024

More than two decades of growing internet use has surfaced fears about the social and psychological ...

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

Former president Donald Trump is facing dozens of criminal charges, including four felony counts on ...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

For people in the US, 2020 was one of the most dangerous years in decades. The first year of the pan...

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

Fox News has been the Republican Party's biggest cheerleader almost since it premiered in 1996.Nearl...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

Immigration and management of the U.S. Southern Border is always a politically charged issue, but es...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

A deadly attack on an U.S. military base in Jordan pulled the United States deeper into a regional c...

Sun, 28 Jan 2024

During his time in office, former president Donald Trump talked a great deal about all of the positi...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

A look behind the curtain at the Oscar campaign machine and what it takes to bring home the gold.Lea...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

Ever since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas almost four months ago, U.S. leaders have ...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent a career defying political gravity. Now he's fac...

Tue, 23 Jan 2024

In a republican primary field that at one time boasted more than a dozen candidates, former South Ca...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Alabama has already tried to execute Kenneth Smith once. On the night of November 17, 2022, he was ...

Sun, 21 Jan 2024

Just days away from the nation's first primary in New Hampshire, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspe...

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

The presidential debate has been a right of passage for both primary and general election candidates...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

These days when you think of Boeing, the words that come to mind might be: door plug, 737-max, groun...

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Since Israel's war against Hamas began, the US has tried to prevent a wider regional war from break...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

Former President Donald Trump's victory in the Iowa caucuses this week surprised almost no one, but ...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

Artificial Intelligence is front of mind these days. Many of us are spending a lot of time pondering...

Sun, 14 Jan 2024

Jon Stewart ushered in a new era of late night comedy and pushed the boundaries between news and ent...

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

If you can't remember the last time you had fun, you're not alone. If you want to have more fun, pri...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

Tainan is considered the culinary capital of Taiwan. At one of the oldest wet markets in that South...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

It's been nearly a hundred days since Hamas' deadly attack on Israel, which prompted Israel's ongoin...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

On Saturday, the Taiwanese people vote for a new president. It's one of the most important and close...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

In 2015, then-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley led the way for the removal of the Confederate Fla...

Sun, 07 Jan 2024

Accessing mental health services can be challenging for people on Medicare, the federal health insur...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

Longtime CEO of the National Rifle Associate has announced his resignation. LaPierre steps down amid...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

Several hundred pages of documents were released Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against Jeffrey Epst...

Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Twin bombings in Iran and a senior Hamas leader killed in Lebanon are just two recent events that ar...

Tue, 02 Jan 2024

Former President and likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been kicked off primary...

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

The tradition of the New Year's resolution can be alluring. What better moment in time to resolve t...

Sun, 31 Dec 2023

If you've had a tough 2023, it might be hard to jump into 2024 with enthusiasm. For our last episode...

Sat, 30 Dec 2023

The trauma of war and its aftermath can leave scars on those who survive - deep scars that can be bo...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

The United Nations says more than 2,500 people died in the Mediterranean Sea this year as they tried...

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

Fentanyl has killed an unprecedented number of people in the United States again in 2023. But so fa...

Tue, 26 Dec 2023

2023 might go down as the year that artificial intelligence became mainstream. It was a topic of di...

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

It's the stuff of legend. In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing...

Sun, 24 Dec 2023

Maybe you and your family are gathering round the new 65 inch TV that Santa brought and snuggling in...

Sat, 23 Dec 2023

Today we're sharing an episode of NPR's podcast Trump's Trials, hosted Scott Detrow. In this episod...

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

It was the year of Beyoncé! It was the year of Taylor! Both musicians had highly successful tours, ...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Nearly two years into Roe v. Wade being overturned, pregnant people continue to have a hard time acc...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Americans are increasingly using drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro to lose weight. And they go...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023

Former President Donald Trump has always embraced dehumanizing rhetoric, but now as he tries to capt...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

For Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2023 began with his war against Ukraine stagnating. It went o...

Sun, 17 Dec 2023

On January 15, Iowa will take center stage as the first leg of the Republican primary race to the pr...

Sat, 16 Dec 2023

Today we're sharing an episode of NPR's podcast Trump's Trials, hosted Scott Detrow with regular an...

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

The auto industry, along with the Biden administration, has bet billions on the electric vehicle ind...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

Protests by students supportive of Israeli and Jewish communities, and protests by students supporti...

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

Hanukkah's origin story has been a moving target since the beginning says Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, b...

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spent Tuesday in Washington pressing American lawmakers to a...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Anyone who spends time on social media has seen it — the post from someone about a current event, ...

Sun, 10 Dec 2023

If Donald Trump is elected next November, he's promising to use the power of the presidency to go af...

Sat, 09 Dec 2023

Today we're sharing an episode of NPR's podcast Trump's Trials, hosted by Scott Detrow with regular ...

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

Brenda Lee was just 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" in 1958. It's...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

A woman has never been president. Hillary Clinton has come the closest, but that highest, hardest gl...

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

Diplomat and former US Ambassador Manuel Rocha is facing charges related to secretly serving as an a...

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

Keffiyehs, checkered scarves most closely associated with Palestinians, have been in the news lately...

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

Israel has stepped up military operations in Gaza after the temporary ceasefire ended last week. Gaz...

Sun, 03 Dec 2023

Ranked choice voting has become the latest political change touted as a way to strengthen democracy....

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

Every year world leaders gather at the Conference of the Parties, or COP, to devise solutions to wha...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was viewed as brilliant by some and a war criminal by othe...

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter leaves behind a rich and expansive legacy, including fierce and en...

Tue, 28 Nov 2023

In different places throughout the country, police are pushing back against the policies of progress...

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

Dozens of hostages have been released by Hamas over the last four days. Now after 50 days in captivi...

Sun, 26 Nov 2023

Next year Gen Z and Millennials will make up nearly half of the electorate. What exactly that will m...

Fri, 24 Nov 2023

Consumer spending is a huge part of the economy and sends a strong signal about how Americans feel a...

Thu, 23 Nov 2023

For this holiday episode, we're bringing you a story from the Radio Diaries podcast, The Unmarked Gr...

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

On Wednesday, Israel and Hamas announced details of a deal that calls for the freeing of at least 50...

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

It's just a few days before Thanksgiving, but there's a good chance your holidays are already underw...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

It was announced on Sunday that former first lady Rosalynn Carter had died, at age 96. The Carter f...

Sun, 19 Nov 2023

Pope Francis says he will attend the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, which would make ...

Sat, 18 Nov 2023

Today we're sharing an episode of a new NPR podcast called Trump's Trials, hosted by Scott Detrow wi...

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often referred t...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

Nearly 7 million federal student loan borrowers are in default, and now the U.S. Department of Educa...

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

There's a very real possibility that the 2024 presidential election could come down to a few thousan...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

The United Auto Workers secured its biggest victory in decades in deals with the Big 3 car companies...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

Researchers, election officials and former tech executives are concerned the federal government, fea...

Sun, 12 Nov 2023

Elections in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere showed slightly surprising Democratic strengths...

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

This year the U.S. has experienced devastating natural disasters. Outbreaks of tornadoes leveled ent...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

It's olive harvesting season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But farmer Ayoub Abu Hejleh hasn't...

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

Across America, big cities facing an influx of migrants, struggling to provide basic resources.Learn...

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, justices seemed inclined to uphold a federal law that bans anyone c...

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

Since the Rafah border opened between Egypt and Gaza opened last week, it has been flooded with peop...

Sun, 05 Nov 2023

If you have ever bought a home or are thinking about buying one, you know it can be expensive. For m...

Fri, 03 Nov 2023

On October 31st Israeli military forces bombed the Jabalia refugee camp just north of Gaza City. The...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

The two older sons of former President Donald Trump spent Thursday in a New York courtroom testifyin...

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

After weeks of being bombarded by Israeli airstrikes, following the Hamas attacks of October 7th, so...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

The deadly mass shooting this month in Maine shone a spotlight on the small city of Lewiston. Once a...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Without Pandemic Era Safety Net, Millions Of Americans Could Fall Into PovertyLearn more about spons...

Sun, 29 Oct 2023

The Nightmare Before Christmas is back in theaters, celebrating its 30th anniversary. The film, dire...

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

Residents of Lewiston, Maine spent two days sheltering in place as authorities searched for the man ...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

In Gaza doctors are operating without anesthesia. Fuel is running out. Food is running out. And truc...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

After three weeks of congressional paralysis, House Republicans have elected a new Speaker of the Ho...

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

During the brutal Hamas-led attack on Israel earlier this month, more than 1,400 Israelis were kille...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

The violence between Israel and Gaza is entering its third week. As the number of dead and wounded c...

Sun, 22 Oct 2023

Hockey season is underway and NPR followed one hopeful rookie dreaming of taking the ice for the Was...

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

Ever since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of the House by only eight members of Congress, thin...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

During his visit to Tel Aviv this week, President Biden reiterated a desire for peace between Israel...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

More than 60 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the days after Hamas...

Tue, 17 Oct 2023

At a military base south of Tel Aviv, Israeli soldiers and medical examiners are working around the ...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

Israel's military has ordered all residents of Gaza City and northern Gaza to evacuate to the southe...

Sun, 15 Oct 2023

It's been more than a week of war in Israel and Gaza, following Hamas attacks in southern Israel tha...

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

How do you evacuate more than a million people across a cramped, urban bombed out territory and get ...

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

Following the surprise attack launched by Hamas militants, hundreds of thousands of Israeli forces a...

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

Amazon is by far the U.S.'s largest online marketplace. But sellers say they're being squeezed out b...

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

Conflicts have broken out between Israel and Gaza several times over the years. But this past weeken...

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

One of the main challenges to countering homelessness is to figure out who's most at-risk of losing ...

Sun, 08 Oct 2023

The death toll rose in both Israel and Gaza as the Israeli military and Hamas militants battled for ...

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

Who doesn't love a lush, perfectly manicured grass lawn? It turns out, a lot of people are actively ...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

In the 1980s the U.S. Army launched a recruiting drive around the slogan, "Be all you can be." They'...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

It took just eight Republicans, voting with Democrats, to oust Kevin McCarthy from the House speaker...

Tue, 03 Oct 2023

The Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that threatened the existence of the Consumer Financial Prote...

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a tenure marked by a relentless...

Sun, 01 Oct 2023

Not too long ago, crypto was being trumpeted as the next big thing. Celebrities were getting in on...

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

When the video game Mortal Kombat released in 1992, it took arcades — and later the American home ...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

The federal government will shut down on October 1st if Congress doesn't pass funding legislation fo...

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

The U.S. government and 17 states sued Amazon on Tuesday in a landmark case that could take down the...

Tue, 26 Sep 2023

President Biden made history on Tuesday when he joined members of the United Auto Workers union on a...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

146 days.That's how long it took for the WGA to reach a tentative agreement with major Hollywood stu...

Sun, 24 Sep 2023

As president Joe Biden's campaign for a second term gets underway, a slew of recent polls show that ...

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Close to five thousand people have died in federal prison since 2009.There are 100 federal prisons a...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

New York City has become an unlikely battleground for migrant rights.The city, like others, has stru...

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

On Tuesday, five Americans detained for years in Iran stepped off a plane back onto US soil. They we...

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

The state of California has filed a massive lawsuit against oil companies. The charge is that oil c...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

On Monday, five Americans who were imprisoned in Iran, stepped off a plane in Doha, Qatar. They were...

Sun, 17 Sep 2023

Since becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has faced the constant threat ...

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

If you're over a certain age and you love movies, when you think "movie critic", you probably pictur...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

It can be hard to see how big government policies have a direct effect on an individual's experience...

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

The president of the United Auto Workers says the union is planning to carry out sudden, strategic a...

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

Right now it seems like people all around us are testing positive for COVID. But for the most part, ...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2019, both countrie...

Sun, 10 Sep 2023

The National Football League's regular season is finally underway. And for loyal fans who have been ...

Fri, 08 Sep 2023

The Endangered Species Act turns 50 this year. The landmark law has been successful for decades at s...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

The writers and actors strikes have been grinding on for months with no end in sight. Many on the pi...

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

Giant machines sucking carbon dioxide out of the air to fight climate change sounds like science fic...

Tue, 05 Sep 2023

Google was founded 25 years ago by two Stanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergei Brin. The compan...

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

It's been over three years since the pandemic started and changed the way millions of Americans work...

Sun, 03 Sep 2023

After three and a half years, the pause on federal student loan payments is coming to an end. Gettin...

Fri, 01 Sep 2023

Hundreds of towns, cities and counties across the country impose curfews on young people. On Septemb...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

For the second time this summer the top Republican in the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a...

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

When people find themselves in the path of a hurricane they are faced with the question: should they...

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

On Tuesday, the Biden administration released a list of 10 medications that it's planning to negotia...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

The latest mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida left three people dead.All of the victims were Bla...

Sun, 27 Aug 2023

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is preparing for the next major climate summit, in Dubai. He's calling...

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

The South Pole of the Moon is the coolest place to be. And nearly every country with a space progra...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

With the wildfires in Maui contained, the recovery process has begun.The focus has also turned to ho...

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

Russia's state news agency Tass reported that the country's most famous mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin...

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Former president Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary. And with a ...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Puerto Rico has seen a string of natural disasters in the past few years – hurricanes, earthquakes...

Sun, 20 Aug 2023

The last few elections have brought a wave of self-styled progressive prosecutors into office. They'...

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

A growing body of research makes it clear that noise pollution can have severely harmful impacts on ...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

The Biden administration is under intense political pressure from Republicans over immigration, who ...

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

The CDC says that a new omicron variant called EG.5 is causing a summer wave of COVID cases.Yet, COV...

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

A grand jury in Georgia has indicted Donald Trump for his role in failed efforts to overturn the sta...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

It's been two years since the Taliban entered Kabul, throwing the final days of the U.S. withdrawal ...

Sun, 13 Aug 2023

For the past few months, President Biden's top foreign policy advisors have been working as intermed...

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

As the battle over book bans in schools and libraries continues to play out in various states across...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Hawaii may be a tourist attraction to many Americans, but for over a million people, it's their home...

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

The number of overdoses from fentanyl continues to soar, as do concerns from those in Washington. Im...

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

In past wars, updates have trickled out slowly — often tightly controlled by the militaries involv...

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

One Republican senator from Alabama is single-handedly holding up over 300 senior-level military pro...

Sun, 06 Aug 2023

July was almost certainly the hottest month, globally, on record. It was also a month in which many ...

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

For years, Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention. But after ...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to efforts to overturn ...

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

The unions representing actors and writers in Hollywood have some differences in what they want from...

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts related to...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Two years ago, Mohamed Bazoum was elected as president in Niger's first peaceful democratic transfer...

Sun, 30 Jul 2023

There's a labor shortage on farms in the U.S., and that has implications for all of us who enjoy fre...

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

Editor's note: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.The U.S. military has consiste...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

The Supreme Court may have ended race-conscious admissions in higher education. But the end of affir...

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

When Utah passed a ban on gender-affirming care for people younger than 18, Kat and their family had...

Tue, 25 Jul 2023

When a fiery, toxic train wreck forced residents of East Palestine, Ohio to evacuate last February, ...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

On Monday, Israel's parliament voted into law a key measure to overhaul the country's judiciary. Th...

Sun, 23 Jul 2023

The United States' preeminent professional soccer league, Major League Soccer, has long lagged behin...

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

Tony Bennett, the crooner whose success spanned generations, died Friday. He was 96 years old.His vo...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

We know that climate change is making all sorts of extreme weather events more likely all around the...

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

It's easy to lose track of the seriousness of the legal cases involving Donald Trump, in part becaus...

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

One of the most cutting-edge and controversial fields of biomedical research right now is the quest ...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Carlos Alcaraz's victory over Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final was the latest coronation of a t...

Sun, 16 Jul 2023

Since the 2024 Presidential election may ultimately be decided by a handful of votes in a handful of...

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

James Barber is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Alabama, for the murder of Dorothy Epps in 2...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

Six years ago when former Obama staffer Brian Wallach was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Scleros...

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

As we confront the realities of a changing climate, a group of scientists says we're living in a wor...

Tue, 11 Jul 2023

Baseball was once known for breaking racial barriers in the U.S. But now, Black representation in th...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Since the war began, military aid from the US to Ukraine has largely received bipartisan report. But...

Sun, 09 Jul 2023

The U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate of high-income countries globally, and the numbers ha...

Fri, 07 Jul 2023

Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Bettie Davis, Clark Gable. During Hollywood's Golden Age, which existed...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

The police killing in France of a 17-year old of North African descent sparked protests and violence...

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

On Wednesday Israel said it concluded a two-day military operation in the Jenin refugee camp meant t...

Tue, 04 Jul 2023

It's been more than a decade since 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was repealed. Introduced in 1993, the law...

Mon, 03 Jul 2023

There's nothing obviously patriotic about scarfing down as many hot dogs as you can in ten minutes. ...

Sun, 02 Jul 2023

The Supreme Court ended its term this week with three rulings that will have far reaching consequenc...

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

A week on from an aborted uprising, Vladimir Putin is still standing. But for how long? The brief r...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

The Supreme Court effectively killed race-conscious admissions in higher education on Thursday. In ...

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

A punishing heat wave has left more than a dozen people dead across Texas. In recent days temperatur...

Tue, 27 Jun 2023

When it comes to American politics, Florida regularly finds its way to the center of the conversatio...

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin faced a direct challenge to his authority over the weekend. Mercena...

Sun, 25 Jun 2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is a $1.2 trillion law meant to spur a massive infrastructure rene...

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

Last June, when the Supreme Court reversed the Roe v. Wade decision, which had stood for nearly 50 y...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

There has been no shortage of confrontations between the U.S. and China this year. This week, shortl...

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

As climate change gets worse, California is seeing larger and more dangerous wildfires. And in respo...

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

Time is running out to locate the submersible vessel that went missing Sunday, on a voyage to visit ...

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

While Black people in this country have been celebrating Juneteenth for decades, what is sometimes r...

Sun, 18 Jun 2023

Made in America. It may be a catchy political slogan, but it's a lot more complicated than it sounds...

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

It depends on when, and where you grew up, but you can probably name a few of your favorite sit-com ...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

A deadly and addictive chemical normally used as a horse tranquilizer is being mixed into illegal dr...

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

When Kim Hyun-woo stepped into the NPR studios in Washington, he was doing something that in his pas...

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump appeared in a federal courthouse in Miami where he pleaded...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

The U.S. is in the midst of a drug crisis, with opioid overdose deaths climbing to epidemic proporti...

Sun, 11 Jun 2023

For more than a year the PGA, the world's leading pro golf league, has basically been at war with th...

Fri, 09 Jun 2023

Federal Indian boarding schools left a decades long legacy of abuse, neglect and forced assimilation...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

Every year about 600,000 thousand people are reported missing in the United States per the National ...

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

Being Black and an immigrant is an increasingly common phenomenon in the South, where 1 in 10 Black ...

Tue, 06 Jun 2023

When people speak about God in various religions, the deity is typically referred to using the mascu...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

Wars are expensive. And Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had an impact on the economies of both coun...

Sun, 04 Jun 2023

While it may seem like Black-focused media is at a high these days, the reality is only 4% of all me...

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

Lullabies. We all know one. Whether we were sung one as a baby or now sing one to our own children. ...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

In the months ahead of the election, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faced criticism for his ...

Wed, 31 May 2023

The right to repair movement scored a big victory last week in Minnesota, where it got legislation s...

Tue, 30 May 2023

It's been five years since the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear deal. What followed: the U-S re-impose...

Mon, 29 May 2023

Back in March, roughly 80 people in Hong Kong marched in opposition to a land reclamation project th...

Sun, 28 May 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter did not go as planned. ...

Fri, 26 May 2023

Tina Turner, one of Rock and Roll's greatest stars, died this week in her home in Switzerland at the...

Thu, 25 May 2023

Since its relaunch in the 1980s, Jeopardy! has had thousands of contestants. For some of the its mos...

Wed, 24 May 2023

It's been one year since an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers at an elementary sc...

Tue, 23 May 2023

The United States has 27 years to reach its net-zero emissions goal. And among other initiatives to ...

Mon, 22 May 2023

The Hollywood writers' strike has meant three weeks of late-night comedy and soap opera reruns for t...

Sun, 21 May 2023

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recently recommended allowing birth control pills to b...

Fri, 19 May 2023

Across the country, members of the class of COVID are graduating: students who started high school b...

Thu, 18 May 2023

Few stars shined brighter in the 80's than Michael J Fox, and when the '90s rolled around, he was st...

Wed, 17 May 2023

At least fourteen states in the US have passed laws or policies that limit or restrict gender-affirm...

Tue, 16 May 2023

The state of Israel turned 75 this week. For many Israeli Jews, it's a moment of celebration - the n...

Mon, 15 May 2023

Hospital emergency rooms saw some of the most painful scenes of the pandemic: beds filled to capacit...

Sun, 14 May 2023

On Thursday, the Biden administration lifted title 42, a pandemic-era policy that shut down virtuall...

Fri, 12 May 2023

Sudan's month-long conflict has been a story of broken ceasefires, constant clashes, mass displaceme...

Thu, 11 May 2023

On Wednesday, after a week of demonstrations, New York City mayor Eric Adams made some of his most f...

Wed, 10 May 2023

In addition to being one of country music's biggest icons, Dolly Parton is also a prolific philanthr...

Tue, 09 May 2023

No matter how you measure it, there is a lot of parking in the U.S. According to some estimates ther...

Mon, 08 May 2023

Sudan's capital city Khartoum has been embroiled in a vicious urban battle between rival armies for ...

Sun, 07 May 2023

Jonathan Mitchell devised the legal strategy behind SB 8, a near-total ban on abortion in Texas. Tha...

Fri, 05 May 2023

A new advisory out this week from the US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has deemed loneliness a pu...

Thu, 04 May 2023

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has put the Supreme Court, again, under scrutiny. Reports show...

Wed, 03 May 2023

Union writers in Hollywood have put down their pens and reached for picket signs, after the Writers ...

Tue, 02 May 2023

Eastwind Books in Berkeley, California, has closed its doors. It was one of the oldest Asian-America...

Mon, 01 May 2023

Lots of colleges and universities have announced tuition hikes for the upcoming school year, just as...

Sat, 29 Apr 2023

Earlier this week, nobody was surprised when President Joe Biden officially announced he is running ...

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

Several U.S. states have passed bills restricting or banning gender-affirming care for trans youth, ...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

The idea that social media use has helped fuel an increase in anxiety, depression and loneliness amo...

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

Fox's statement announcing the departure of Tucker Carlson, it's most watched primetime host, was a ...

Tue, 25 Apr 2023

President Biden has officially ended the national emergency that was declared during the COVID-19 pa...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

Even amid mass layoffs in tech and other sectors, the economy is still adding jobs. Even tech jobs.N...

Sat, 22 Apr 2023

Newspapers and intrepid reporters are at the heart of hundreds of movies - think Citizen Kane, All T...

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is back at work on Capitol Hill after taking leave to seek treatment for...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

The past seven years in the United Kingdom have been intense. The country struggled through Brexit, ...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

As Earth's climate warms, more ice is melting near the poles. And that is a huge driver of sea level...

Tue, 18 Apr 2023

Just a few years before the violence and chaos currently engulfing Sudan, it seemed to be on a tenuo...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

While the country seemingly moves on from the pandemic, an estimated 15 million U.S. adults are suff...

Sat, 15 Apr 2023

Millions of children have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion. They have relocated across the c...

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled ambitious new emissions rules this week. The agency est...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

Syria is buckling under the stresses caused by civil war, a brutal dictatorship, punishing internati...

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Millions of Ukrainian children had their schooling interrupted by Russia's invasion. The war has als...

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

Democrats and Republicans disagree on a lot of issues. But there's a growing consenus in both parite...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

A majority of the Nashville Metro Council supports reappointing former state Representative Justin J...

Sat, 08 Apr 2023

Whether you're a politician, a mental health expert, or a parent, it seems everyone has a problem wi...

Fri, 07 Apr 2023

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, a 19th century abortion ban took effect in...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

2023 is on track to beat last year's record when it comes to book bans. The free speech group PEN Am...

Wed, 05 Apr 2023

Black Americans are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans. And there's a g...

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

The legal and political worlds officially moved into uncharted waters when former President Donald T...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

The FDA has approved over-the-counter sales of Narcan, a nasal spray version of the life-saving medi...

Sat, 01 Apr 2023

In the twenty-five years since the Japanese media franchise Pokémon launched in the US, it has bec...

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

Former President Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury, making him the first former presi...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

It's been another month of impressive and unsettling AI breakthroughs. And, along with excitement, t...

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

Some officials in Democratic-led jurisdictions around the country are pushing to use involuntary com...

Tue, 28 Mar 2023

The United Nations says time is running out to avoid the worst effects of climate change. At the sam...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

A task force set up by the California state legislature is studying how the legacy of slavery has ha...

Sat, 25 Mar 2023

Donald Trump was the first president in American history to be impeached twice. Now, he may be the f...

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

On March 24, 2018, hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Washington, D.C. to demand...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

PIMCO founder and legendary investor Bill Gross was known as the "Bond King." People all over the fi...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

School districts across the country are struggling to fill vacancies among their teaching staff. In ...

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

The Cherokee Nation has been hit hard by opioid addiction and fentanyl-related overdose deaths. But ...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

On March 20, 2003, the United States launched its invasion of Iraq. We recall how the war started, a...

Sat, 18 Mar 2023

Today, when we hear the word pandemic, most people think of COVID-19. But by 2003, while rates of H...

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

When it comes to TV ratings, women's college basketball is trending upward - even as the men's game ...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that he says can keep more guns out of the hands o...

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

A group of volunteers is braving artillery barrages to evacuate residents from towns and cities in U...

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

A new documentary called Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic has gained attention at screenings hosted b...

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

The Biden administration took extraordinary measures to protect the accounts of customers at two ban...

Sat, 11 Mar 2023

In about the last 10 years, the legalized cannabis industry has grown into a $32 billion business. ...

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he welcomes a bipartisan effort in Congress to push for...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

Some 16 million American households receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pr...

Wed, 08 Mar 2023

Before he was the face of a protest movement and a starting quarterback in the Super Bowl, Colin Kae...

Tue, 07 Mar 2023

He hasn't yet entered the contest, but even so, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is one of the leading ...

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

Tennessee passed a bill last week restricting drag shows. The law specifically bans "adult cabaret p...

Sat, 04 Mar 2023

When Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid this week, many people saw the result as ...

Fri, 03 Mar 2023

Documents released as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit reveal that many Fox News stars knew...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

The Supreme Court is weighing whether or not the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutio...

Wed, 01 Mar 2023

Raghavan Iyer built his career helping Americans get to know the fundamentals of Indian cooking. Now...

Tue, 28 Feb 2023

Margaret Elysia Garcia tried hard to rebuild her life in Greenville, California after it was devasta...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency says tests have not shown any contamination of air or drinking w...

Sat, 25 Feb 2023

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's call for mandatory mental competency tests for polit...

Fri, 24 Feb 2023

Kherson was the the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian troops. With deep historical ties ...

Thu, 23 Feb 2023

There are a lot of different Advanced Placement history courses out there: art history, European his...

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

For people who have not experienced it, life in prison can seem unimaginable. So reporters who have ...

Tue, 21 Feb 2023

This week marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022.And in the past year, Ukra...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

The Sierra Club has been at the forefront of the American environmental movement for decades. Howeve...

Sat, 18 Feb 2023

We're approaching a year since Russian leader Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, a conflict that has re...

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

"This kind of dissent? It doesn't go away." That's what NPR heard from a 20-year-old woman on the st...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

The derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3rd sparked f...

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

A total of four high-flying, balloon-like objects have been shot down by US fighter jets this month....

Tue, 14 Feb 2023

Sales of romance novels were up in 2022, with a surge of about 52 percent for sales of print copies,...

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

One week since arriving in southern Turkey after massive back-to-back earthquakes hit the region, ou...

Sat, 11 Feb 2023

Haiti, a country long besieged by political turmoil, was plunged further into chaos in 2021 when the...

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly is on the ground in Iran, where she spoke directly with Iranians about their...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023

Negotiating a purchase at a car dealership can be a stressful experience. But once you sign the deal...

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

President Joe Biden's State of the Union address seemed like business as usual, until one of Biden's...

Tue, 07 Feb 2023

Communities in northern Syria and southeastern Turkey are struggling in the aftermath of Monday's de...

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

China and the US were supposed to hold diplomatic talks over the weekend. Instead they sparred over ...

Sat, 04 Feb 2023

Football is the most watched sport in the US - and one of the most profitable. The NFL reported tha...

Fri, 03 Feb 2023

More than three years since the start of the COVID pandemic, infectious disease experts are studying...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023

The Memphis Police Department has disbanded its special SCORPION unit, after five of the unit's offi...

Wed, 01 Feb 2023

Pamela Anderson has had an incredibly rich, and varied, career. She's an actress, the author of seve...

Tue, 31 Jan 2023

Signs of a forthcoming recession seem to be everywhere: from grocery stores, where food prices are s...

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

While some countries are seeing their populations decline and grow older, others are growing fast. T...

Sun, 29 Jan 2023

Americans have grown accustomed to hearing about the latest mass shooting. And recently news coverag...

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

Five police officers have been charged with murder and other crimes in the wake of Tyre Nichols' dea...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

Maya Moore stepped away from her stellar basketball career to help free Jonathan Irons, a man who wa...

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

For months, Ukraine pressed western allies for state-of-the-art tanks. For months, Germany and the U...

Tue, 24 Jan 2023

Since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion, some Muslims in America have ...

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

The people of Monterey Park, California, would normally be celebrating Lunar New Year right now, one...

Sat, 21 Jan 2023

Admit it - you've fantasized about what you would do if you hit the lottery and exactly how you woul...

Fri, 20 Jan 2023

In China, huge numbers of people are expected to travel and gather with family this weekend for the ...

Thu, 19 Jan 2023

The Justice Department is investigating the mishandling of classified documents linked to President ...

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

The U.S. will hit its borrowing limit on Thursday, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and...

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

If you could change one thing in your life to become a happier person — like your income, a job, y...

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

The soccer world was shocked by the death of renowned U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl at the World...

Sat, 14 Jan 2023

The start of a new year can push us to think about how we take care of ourselves – our bodies or o...

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

This is a pivotal moment in the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces continue to have the upper hand on ...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

People sometimes object when Aubrey Gordon describes herself as fat. It's not that they're disputing...

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

Destructive flooding caused by torrential rains has created a deadly disaster in California. The dea...

Tue, 10 Jan 2023

The attack on Brazil's congress and presidential palace Sunday was reminiscent of the attack on the ...

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Parents who have their kids placed in foster care often get a bill to reimburse the state for part o...

Sat, 07 Jan 2023

'Tis the season for lists! Best films of the year, best albums, best podcasts. Lists can provoke str...

Fri, 06 Jan 2023

It's been two years since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, leaving an indelible ...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023

The world faces key deadlines for climate action in coming decades. But most of us are more focused ...

Wed, 04 Jan 2023

A small group of Republican hardliners set out to block Kevin McCarthy, their party's leader in the ...

Tue, 03 Jan 2023

High mortgage rates and a low supply of homes for sale has made homeownership feel out of reach for ...

Mon, 02 Jan 2023

Although not widely known, 37-year-old Tobias Jesso Jr.'s name pops up on the credits of some of tod...

Sat, 31 Dec 2022

It's that time of year - the ball has dropped, the champagne bottles are empty and you have a list o...

Fri, 30 Dec 2022

The United Kingdom is, for many, synonymous with stability. But 2022 has been a year of turbulence a...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

Artificial intelligence is now so much a part of our lives that it seems almost mundane. So is that ...

Wed, 28 Dec 2022

You've heard the saying, 'Blood is thicker than water,' right? Yet for many people, family is not ju...

Tue, 27 Dec 2022

Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the GOP leader in the House of Representatives and he's campaigning to become...

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

Malcolm Alexander and Frederick Clay both spent decades in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Bot...

Sat, 24 Dec 2022

Even if you don't follow gossip sites, it was almost impossible this year to ignore the scandals, mi...

Fri, 23 Dec 2022

Trauma is an inherent part of intelligence work. Think of undercover operatives deployed in dangerou...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

The number of Americans experiencing anxiety has been rising, especially since the start of the pand...

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

More and more young people are moving back in with their parents — and staying there. According ...

Tue, 20 Dec 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Biden this year includes incentives for buy...

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capi...

Sat, 17 Dec 2022

The world of wine has long had a reputation for snobbery. And it has long been dominated mostly by w...

Fri, 16 Dec 2022

Three years into the pandemic, the world could be on the cusp of the biggest outbreak yet — in Chi...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

Deion Sanders' decision to leave Jackson State for the University of Colorado has stirred a lot of d...

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Each mass shooting has a grim number attached to it. But that number is made up of individuals, each...

Tue, 13 Dec 2022

Prosecutors say the former CEO of cryptocurrency giant FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, defrauded investors a...

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

In November, Huy Tu found out they were one of 11,000 Meta employees being laid off. Tu is allowed t...

Sat, 10 Dec 2022

If you think about Jack the Ripper or In Cold Blood, true crime stories have always fascinated us. B...

Fri, 09 Dec 2022

This week, authorities in Germany arrested more than two dozen suspected far-right extremists over a...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022

President Biden on Thursday announced the negotiated release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from a pen...

Wed, 07 Dec 2022

In Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock held on to his U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican candidate...

Tue, 06 Dec 2022

Jewish ultranationalists are about to have a lot more power in Israel. Former Prime Minister Benjami...

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

It's been more than a year now since many kids across the country returned to their classrooms. And ...

Sat, 03 Dec 2022

On Sunday, Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will return to the field for the first time i...

Fri, 02 Dec 2022

It didn't take long for Elon Musk's stated vision for Twitter—a "digital town square" where all le...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

The protests in China may have been silenced, for now. But could this be the start of a new politica...

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

The advocacy group Human Rights Campaign reports that in the past year, more than 300 bills targetin...

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Russian attacks have repeatedly targeted Ukrainian energy and heating infrastructure, threatening to...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

Christina Zielke went to an ER in Ohio bleeding profusely while experiencing a miscarriage. This was...

Sun, 27 Nov 2022

For over a year, we've been working on a series of stories on climate migration that spans thousands...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022

Every time stand-up comic Dave Chappelle gets in front of a mic, he seems to reignite a debate over ...

Fri, 25 Nov 2022

There are two tiny patches of Spain on the African continent. One is a city called Melilla that's su...

Thu, 24 Nov 2022

As people across the U.S. celebrate Thanksgiving and enjoy their long holiday weekend, Consider This...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

Hospitals around the country are overwhelmed, but this time it's not just with COVID.Cases of the fl...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022

North Korea says it has successfully tested its largest intercontinental ballistic missile. And expe...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

Jake Thacker of Portland, Ore. says he had $70,000 trapped in FTX when the the cryptocurrency exchan...

Sat, 19 Nov 2022

Thanksgiving is probably the most celebrated meal of the year. But for a lot of home cooks or new c...

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

At COP 27, the annual U.N. conference on climate change, one of the big questions that's been raised...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022

During the past 50 years, more than 1,550 death sentences have been carried out across the U.S.Many ...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

Former President Trump is launching his 2024 campaign with a cloud of legal issues hanging over his ...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

Even a former first lady who's lived an extraordinary life has ordinary and relatable fears. NPR All...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

Climate change is a present tense disaster in some parts of the world. In Senegal, rising seas are d...

Sat, 12 Nov 2022

A surge in anti-Semitic and racist tweets, an incoherent rollout of a paid verification service, and...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

Takeoff, from the Atlanta trio known as Migos, was shot and killed at the beginning of November outs...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022

As Russian forces have retreated in Ukraine, people in newly liberated towns and villages have been ...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

The "red wave" of Republican gains that some predicted didn't come to pass during the midterm electi...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022

Haiti is a country in crisis. Armed gangs have overtaken the capital of Port-au-Prince. Electricity ...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

National issues are increasingly crowding out more local concerns in elections across the country. W...

Sat, 05 Nov 2022

Over the last four decades, affirmative action has helped transform diversity on college campuses in...

Fri, 04 Nov 2022

The extremes of climate change are wreaking havoc on the Mississippi. Over the past two months, this...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

The attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband and other recent incidents have security experts ...

Wed, 02 Nov 2022

Billions will be watching when the men's soccer World Cup begins in Qatar this month. But the countr...

Tue, 01 Nov 2022

More than eight months after the start of Russia's war in Ukraine, new challenges are emerging.NPR's...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Elections are tight in many parts of the US these days. They certainly are in the battleground state...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022

On Friday, federal authorities issued an internal bulletin that warned of the potential for violence...

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

On Sunday, Brazilians will go to the polls to choose between two very different presidential candida...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

The G.I. Bill of 1944 provided free education, unemployment pay and home loans for millions of veter...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 12 million people have cast ballots in the 2022 midterms, accor...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022

A year ago, William Shatner, the actor who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek series, bo...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

The war in Ukraine is stressing global energy and food markets. China's COVID-19 lockdowns continue ...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022

This week, politics in the UK looked a little — crazy. Outraged members of Parliament yelled thei...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

The House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot has subpoenaed former President Donald ...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Election day is less than three weeks away, and Democrats are trying desperately to hold on to their...

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

This week, China's Communist Party Congress is expected to approve a historic third term in office f...

Tue, 18 Oct 2022

It's been more than a month since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being detained by Iran's morali...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was designed to soften the financial impact of the pandemic fo...

Sat, 15 Oct 2022

In a party not known for ethnic diversity, 22 Black candidates are running for Republican House seat...

Fri, 14 Oct 2022

Public health officials are warning of a possible surge in COVID cases this winter. How bad it could...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

President Biden met with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this summer — a man he ha...

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

There are more than 16 million people in the U.S. that are caring for someone with Alzheimer's and r...

Tue, 11 Oct 2022

In the span of one morning this week, Russian airstrikes hit cities across Ukraine—some hundreds o...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

Last week, the Supreme Court heard opening arguments in Merrill v. Mulligan, a case that could gut t...

Sat, 08 Oct 2022

Over the past few years, we've heard shocking allegations from women athletes about experiencing sex...

Fri, 07 Oct 2022

Cheating allegations have rocked many worlds over the last few weeks.Chess, fishing, poker, and even...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is perpetually stuck in limbo.The people there are subject to feder...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

After a prescribed burn became the largest wildfire in New Mexico history earlier this year, the U.S...

Tue, 04 Oct 2022

The past twelve months have been the deadliest on record for the migrants crossing the Southern U.S....

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

Higher mortgage rates are putting a damper on the U.S. housing market. Home prices are down and sale...

Sat, 01 Oct 2022

The Electoral Count Reform Act is a bipartisan response to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capito...

Fri, 30 Sep 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formal annexation of four territories in Ukraine on F...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

Hurricane Ian carved a path of destruction through central Florida, with extreme winds, heavy rains ...

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

The widespread protests in Iran were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. She died after...

Tue, 27 Sep 2022

Every year, more than 300,000 U.S. families have infants who require advanced medical care in neonat...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Ruby Bridges was just six years old in 1960 when she became the first Black child to desegregate the...

Sat, 24 Sep 2022

This week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced recommendations that doctors screen all ...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

The NFL has dealt with plenty of scandal this century, but this offseason was pretty rough. Accusati...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

More than 55,000 people in the U.S. are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, ac...

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has allocated billions of dollars to Puerto Rico to help it ...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022

As record numbers of people in the U.S. die from drug overdoses, communities are searching for tools...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

For many in the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth was synonymous with the monarchy. As she's laid to r...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022

Since a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for college athletes to profit from the use of their name...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022

For the past six months, dancers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in Los Angeles have been striki...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

It's a strange moment in the pandemic. Mask mandates and other restrictions have all but disappeared...

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

Over the past week, the Ukrainian military has retaken thousands of square miles of territory from R...

Tue, 13 Sep 2022

Social media platforms have helped fuel political polarization and incitements to violence across th...

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

A lot of mobile homes aren't actually that mobile. They're brought in trucks in big pieces, then scr...

Sat, 10 Sep 2022

Even if you have never walked the red carpet at the Met Gala, or sat in the front row of a Fashion W...

Fri, 09 Sep 2022

Quiet quitting. It's a buzzy topic in the workplace and on social media, sparked by a viral TikTok v...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of Britain since 1952, died on Thursday at the age of 96. She reigne...

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

For more than a month, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have not had access to safe drinking water...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022

Traffic fatalities have surged since the early days of the pandemic, reversing a persistent decline ...

Mon, 05 Sep 2022

When Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in 2017, she was in the midst of reporting...

Sun, 04 Sep 2022

After decades of scandals over horrible conditions, many states are reimagining prisons and jails an...

Fri, 02 Sep 2022

After the 2016 election – and Russian hacking attempts targeted at local election offices – hund...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

Students in Uvalde, Texas are going back to school for the first time since a gunman killed 19 stude...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

It's been 17 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, permanently changing life for man...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022

Serena Williams dominated tennis for the better part of two decades. Her athleticism and aggressive ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

This summer, just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the story of a 10-year-old g...

Sat, 27 Aug 2022

Across the country, some teachers are deciding not to return to the classroom this September. The pa...

Fri, 26 Aug 2022

President Biden's plan to forgive federal student loan debt – up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipie...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

For nearly four decades, Dr. Anthony Fauci has been leading the fight against infectious diseases in...

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

The soldiers known as the Azovstal defenders are heroes in Ukraine. They held out for months against...

Tue, 23 Aug 2022

Gas prices are down. Inflation is dropping ever so slightly. But the cost of food is going up. The p...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

One year after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, the lives of women and girls have changed dram...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022

It's the kind of captivating, complex story that's hard to forget once you hear it. In 2012, star No...

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

President Biden had the narrowest possible Democratic Majority in the Senate when he took office. Ye...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

75 years ago this week, British colonial rule ended in India. Two new nations emerged - Muslim-major...

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

A key primary this week in Wyoming re-affirmed Donald Trump's hold on the Republican party.As expect...

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

In 2018, more than 5,500 children of immigrants were separated from their parents at the border.The ...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

One year ago, on August 15, 2021, the Taliban swept into power in Kabul. It's a day that many rememb...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022

At one point, over 90% of African Americans with a college degree obtained it from an HBCU. But in t...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022

Former President Donald Trump is dominating headlines yet again. Earlier this week, the FBI took sev...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

Up until a few weeks ago, meaningful climate legislation was sidelined in the U.S. Senate. But after...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

In Republican politics, one of the biggest issues in the 2022 election is the 2020 election. In at l...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022

Researchers at an American national laboratory spent years developing cutting-edge vanadium redox fl...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

All eyes are on Kherson. In Ukraine's first major offensive of the war, soldiers are pushing towards...

Sat, 06 Aug 2022

Bashar Murad's danceable riffs and live concerts and videos - filled with bubbles, enormous hats, an...

Fri, 05 Aug 2022

This week the Biden administration declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. And as...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the U.S. airstrike that killed al-Qaida leader Ay...

Wed, 03 Aug 2022

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, a dozen states have implemented laws banning or severely restricting ...

Tue, 02 Aug 2022

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan o...

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

Dee Davis remembers watching his grandmother float by in a canoe during the 1957 flood that hit Whit...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022

You may have never heard the phrase abortion doula, but for years they have been working to support ...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

This week, Pope Francis has been in Canada, on what he calls a "Pilgrimage of Penance". He's been go...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

The BA.5 variant is the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the country, according to the Centers fo...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

Residential hotels used to play a huge role in the American housing landscape, providing flexible ac...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of the universe that have stunned both scientists...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

Food, gas, rent — prices are climbing across the board. As inflation hit a 40-year high last month...

Sat, 23 Jul 2022

This week dozens of family members of victims of the Uvalde Texas school shooting showed up at the t...

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

This week the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol wrapp...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

Record high temperatures have wreaked havoc around the world this week. In Southern England, railway...

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

Talking about abortion can be difficult even among adults. So how do you talk to kids about it? We a...

Tue, 19 Jul 2022

How serious is the U.S. about investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine? They put Eli Rosenbaum on...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

Interest in birth control and emergency contraception has surged since the U.S. Supreme Court overtu...

Sat, 16 Jul 2022

The televised probe into the mob attack on the Capitol has dropped plenty of bombshells as insider t...

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

Public health experts know what it takes to get a disease outbreak under control - widespread testin...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

Your vote is secret. But the fact that you voted in an election is typically public record.So some p...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022

In a tweet sent on December 19, 2021, former President Trump issued what Democrats now say was a "cl...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022

A new omicron subvariant is now the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. It's called BA.5 —...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

Mass shooting deaths represent just a fraction of people killed by gun violence in America, and more...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022

When the Women's NBA All-Star Game gets underway this weekend, the league will be missing one of its...

Fri, 08 Jul 2022

A wave of decisions by the Supreme Court's conservative majority has lead to criticism that the cour...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

Donald Trump's lie that the election was stolen from him continues to spread. That's, in large part,...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022

COVID vaccines are available to children as young as six months old. Still, plenty of parents and ca...

Tue, 05 Jul 2022

Trigger bans. Restraining orders. State and local disputes. New fights about old laws. After Roe, st...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

It may be too soon to crown the "song of the summer". NPR Music's Stephen Thompson says there's no o...

Sat, 02 Jul 2022

In states across the country, long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, pregnant people ...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022

As many countries have loosened their COVID-19 restrictions and reopened their borders, the demand f...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

While the last few decades have shown major progress when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights globally, queer ...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the January 6th committee landed with a bang. The surprise hea...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

There are 1.5 million people in state and federal prisons in the United States. Very few of them get...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

Congress and the Supreme Court took big steps in opposite directions last week, in the country's lon...

Sat, 25 Jun 2022

Omar Little, Jimmy McNulty, Stringer Bell, Snot Boogie. If you recognize these names, you are probab...

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

Listed rents are up 15% nationwide, and as much as 30% in some cities. At the same time, inflation a...

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

Two American citizens who'd traveled to Ukraine to join the fight against Russia have reportedly bee...

Tue, 21 Jun 2022

As soon as Thursday, the Supreme Court could rule on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. A...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

After two years of pandemic disruptions, this school year was supposed to be better. But for many te...

Sat, 18 Jun 2022

Many of the people affected by the current global monkeypox outbreak are reported to be men who iden...

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

There are few issues as highly debated and emotionally charged as abortion. And in the coming days, ...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

The war between Russia and Ukraine is reverberating in Taiwan, a self-governed island that China cla...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

It's been ten years since the Obama administration announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022

A bipartisan group of Senates say they have reached a deal on a package of safety and gun-related me...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

Prices rose more than expected in May. Gas is averaging $5 a gallon. Food, rent, and housing all cos...

Sat, 11 Jun 2022

After years of struggling to pay federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Corinthian Coll...

Fri, 10 Jun 2022

On Thursday, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capit...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

There have never been more options for drivers who want an electric car. But the demand — fueled b...

Wed, 08 Jun 2022

Nearly everyone agrees the cryptocurrency industry needs regulation, but there are huge disagreement...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022

President Biden urged Congress to act and the House is preparing to pass multiple gun control measur...

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

In the third summer of the pandemic, White House COVID response coordinator Ashish Jha tells NPR it'...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022

The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX has parents and students worried about saf...

Fri, 03 Jun 2022

The UK is celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne with four days of pomp and tribute...

Thu, 02 Jun 2022

So many people in Uvalde, Texas have a shared history. Some of that history runs right through Robb ...

Wed, 01 Jun 2022

NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths at a new p...

Tue, 31 May 2022

What happens if a medical condition threatens the life of a pregnant patient? What about a fetus wit...

Mon, 30 May 2022

Some immigrants never look back. Some spend their lives look back. All Things Considered Senior Prod...

Sat, 28 May 2022

In the past two weeks the nation has borne witness to the tragedy of two mass shootings. In Uvalde, ...

Fri, 27 May 2022

This week marks two years since George Floyd's murder at the hands of a white police officer and the...

Thu, 26 May 2022

This is a fragile moment for the U.S. economy. Many people are feeling the steep rise of the cost of...

Wed, 25 May 2022

At least 19 children were shot and killed by a man who investigators say was armed with assault rifl...

Tue, 24 May 2022

Dozens of states could soon take steps to ban or restrict abortion. But there are a lot of unanswere...

Mon, 23 May 2022

It's 2022, but the 2020 election is on the ballot in Georgia, where several Trump-backed candidates ...

Sat, 21 May 2022

Last year the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves on the site of a former resident...

Fri, 20 May 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used possible NATO expansion to justify invading Ukraine. Now, ...

Thu, 19 May 2022

A Polish school in Warsaw has taken in Ukrainian refugee students and teachers. The school provides ...

Wed, 18 May 2022

This week, the FDA announced new steps to ease a nationwide baby formula shortage prompted, in part,...

Tue, 17 May 2022

As the U.S. marks one million people dead from COVID-19, scientists suggest that nearly one third of...

Mon, 16 May 2022

A man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York was allegedly motivated by a racist doctrine...

Sat, 14 May 2022

The United States is experiencing an adolescent mental health crisis. Experts from the Centers for D...

Fri, 13 May 2022

Sasa Woodruff loves food—she's been accused of having far too many cookbooks. But in 2019, a phone...

Thu, 12 May 2022

Inflation dipped slightly in April, but it's still at a historically-high 8.3 percent. Research sugg...

Wed, 11 May 2022

Some countries in Latin America are expanding abortion rights. Other countries, like Poland, have al...

Tue, 10 May 2022

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia is gaining followers in the U.S. — not Russian immig...

Mon, 09 May 2022

Debates about the status of Roe v. Wade continue after the Supreme Court's draft opinion was leaked ...

Sat, 07 May 2022

Earlier this week, a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court suggested that after nearly 50 year...

Fri, 06 May 2022

For a few months, it looked like COVID-19 was retreating in the United States. But cases are rising ...

Thu, 05 May 2022

Twin babies Lenny and Moishe were born via surrogate in Ukraine, just as Russia invaded the country....

Wed, 04 May 2022

Bipartisan members who serve on state and county boards of canvassers in Michigan have an important ...

Tue, 03 May 2022

The right to an abortion in the United States appears closer than ever to being eliminated, after a ...

Mon, 02 May 2022

Cases of COVID-19 have been surging throughout China. The country has implemented a stringent "zero-...

Sat, 30 Apr 2022

Communities of color are the most harshly affected by climate change in the United States. While the...

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Over the past two years, about 200 journalists across the country have been detained or arrested whi...

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's mask mandate on planes, trains and buses ended earl...

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

One Palestinian man's struggle to get life-saving medical care while living in the Gaza Strip highli...

Tue, 26 Apr 2022

Stephanie is one of nearly one million Americans who have died of COVID-19. Her family says Stephani...

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

Between the 1990s and late 2000s, people in Chechnya described Russia's wars there as a nightmare. I...

Sat, 23 Apr 2022

You introduce yourself and then someone mispronounces your name. At that point you have to decide if...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

For years, most states have reported a shortage of special education teachers. Now, according to fed...

Thu, 21 Apr 2022

California's Reparations Task Force is preparing to release its first report on the impact of racism...

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

The pains of every war ripple out beyond the borders of the conflict zone. And as the war between Ru...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022

A federal judge struck down the CDC's mask mandate for public transportation on Monday, clearing the...

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter. His vision of the future may not pan out for the platform, but that ...

Sat, 16 Apr 2022

More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have left their country since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine....

Fri, 15 Apr 2022

This weekend, followers of three major religions are observing some of their most sacred holidays. M...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

A U.S. House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is entering its final phase before ...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

This past week, the world's attention has been focused on the death and destruction that's been disc...

Tue, 12 Apr 2022

Prices are up on everything from groceries, to rent, to gas, and consumer price inflation hit a new ...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

After taking control of Afghanistan last summer, the Taliban made promises for more inclusive and le...

Sat, 09 Apr 2022

More than 400,000 Ukrainian refugees have poured across the border into the small country of Moldova...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022

Michelle Yeoh has been a star for decades. American audiences will know her as a warrior in Crouchin...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Reports of civilians being tortured and killed — and the accompanying images that have surfaced th...

Wed, 06 Apr 2022

Many Americans haven't gotten an initial COVID-19 booster. A second one is authorized for some. Othe...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022

Florida's Parental Rights in Education law, which prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientat...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

Thousands of people who claim Johnson & Johnson baby powder caused them to develop cancer cannot sue...

Sun, 03 Apr 2022

Roger Latimer says he was beaten by guards in a security camera blind spot at Western Illinois Corre...

Sat, 02 Apr 2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, there has been intense focus on Russian oligarchs - elites with enormo...

Fri, 01 Apr 2022

Binge watching a show you love is enjoyable, but not always productive. But artists Abigail Barlow a...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Researchers say the intersection between far-right movements and environmentalism is bigger than man...

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is a longtime conservative activist...

Tue, 29 Mar 2022

An omicron subvariant known as BA.2 could soon become the dominant form of the coronavirus in the Un...

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

In 2008, Russia invaded another former Soviet republic: Georgia, a small country on the southeast ed...

Sat, 26 Mar 2022

Even if you're not a fan of celebrity gossip, you've probably heard that there's something going on ...

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

The film Flee has already made Oscars history: it's the first to be nominated for best documentary, ...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

This week, the average price for a gallon of gas in L.A. County crested six dollars — the highest ...

Wed, 23 Mar 2022