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Oct 16, 2026
An armed bystander stopped a shooting at a school in Bend, Ore. We talk with experts about how rarely an armed civilian ends an attack like this and how gun rights groups are responding.
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Oct 16, 2026
A new investigative series by NPR looks into the real life missing person case of American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria over a decade ago.
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Oct 16, 2026
The Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. has been trying to make sense of it in their music. Their new album is called Dopamine Chamber.
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Oct 16, 2026
In Silicon Valley, the AI boom means a lot of people are excited about this new technology, but concerned about when the music might stop. NPR went to San Francisco Tech Week to take the pulse.
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Oct 16, 2026
Norway has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, but it's facing a self-imposed dilemma. Should the fund's investments include companies that contribute to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war?
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Oct 16, 2026
A massive deep-ocean wave is raising sea levels along the West Coast. It's called a Kelvin Wave, and it's driven by El Nino
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Oct 16, 2026
Money is pouring into political races across the country, but are there limits to how much the extra cash can do to sway the outcome of the midterms.
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Oct 16, 2026
Many infants are leaving the hospital without getting immunized against RSV. Why? Because many insurance companies won't pay for the shots while the newborn is in the hospital.
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Oct 16, 2026
Washington Post freelance photographer Heidi Levine was attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Levine speaks with NPR's Scott Detrow about the attack.
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Oct 16, 2026
Some people may think that plants that grow in lakes are weeds that should be removed, but ecologists say native aquatic plants keep lakes healthy. They also prevent invasive species from taking over.
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Oct 16, 2026
The Brewers head to the World Series how do they compare to the 1982 squad? We ask NPR's Ron Elving, who covered them.
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Oct 15, 2026
Nneka Ogwumike's legacy was never in question winning a championship and league MVP within four years. Negotiating the largest collective bargaining agreement in pro sports for the WNBA ensures it.
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Oct 15, 2026
Men and women across India are being paid to record themselves doing domestic jobs as developers train AI robots to do household chores.
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Oct 15, 2026
NPR's science podcast Short Wave brings us stories about the hunting habits of ancient sea monsters, the microbiome of long COVID patients, and how elephant carcasses replenish the savannah.
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Oct 15, 2026
President Trump announced that the Fort Hood attacker's execution will not be livestreamed. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with New Yorker journalist Dexter Filkins, who witnessed a public execution.
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Oct 15, 2026
More than a year into a declared ceasefire in Gaza — and three years into the war — Israel still hasn't allowed foreign media independent access to Gaza.
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Oct 15, 2026
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Actor and author Nick Offerman reflects on a place that shaped him.
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Oct 15, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jennifer Tiexiera and Mfaz Mohamed Ali, filmmaker and original oratory competitor, about their documentary, Speak, and the importance of speech clubs in schools.
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Oct 15, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jason Horowitz about his memoir, The Italian Job, and his years spent learning the ropes in Rome and reporting on Italy's biggest stories.
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Oct 15, 2026
As part of her new podcast and newsletter Your Turn with Allison Aubrey, NPR's Allison Aubrey went in search of tools to help navigate midlife — starting with this survey to rank one's character strengths.
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Oct 15, 2026
Kansas voters could send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in nearly a century — and flip the governor's office back to Republican control, even in what could be a tough year for the GOP.
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Oct 15, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon about how his state is preparing for the upcoming midterm elections.
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Oct 15, 2026
We take a snapshot of life on the campaign trail less than three weeks ahead of the midterms' Election Day.
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Oct 15, 2026
As Election Day approaches, some key swing voters are talking about casting their ballots to check President Trump. That's one takeaway from new focus groups.
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Oct 14, 2026
Pope Leo is resting in a Roman hospital after undergoing lung surgery to remove a cancerous growth, according to the Vatican. Meanwhile, experts are weighin in about what this health scare means for the 71-year-old pontiff and his papacy?
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Oct 14, 2026
Katie Zacharia's first White House press briefing was short and often halting. The new press secretary chosen by President Trump left a lot of unanswered questions, including some uncertainties about her own qualifications.
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Oct 14, 2026
The president of Cornell University, Michael Kotlikoff, is under fire over the university's handling of a gang rape at a fraternity party in 2024.
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Oct 14, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, about the inflation data that was released on Wednesday.
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Oct 14, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David S. Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA, about his piece in Foreign Affairs entitled "The Case for Economic Espionage."
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Oct 14, 2026
Medicare open enrollment starts Thursday, Oct. 15. And for several million seniors across the country it will be especially important. That's because some insurers are shutting their Medicare Advantage plans, especially in rural areas.
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Oct 14, 2026
Free samples, high-pressure pitches, and $50,000 bills: An NPR investigation reveals how a network of mall skincare stores scammed shoppers out of thousands of dollars.
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Oct 14, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Liz and Anna Sargent about their movie, "Take Me Home", and about working together as sisters.
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Oct 14, 2026
Ukraine says its critical satellite communications system, which is supplied by the U.S. and guides its drones, has suddenly been restricted. It comes as the Trump administration has told Ukraine to stop attacking Russia's oil facilities.
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Oct 14, 2026
The arrest last week of August Hanning, a former head of Germany's intelligence service, on treason and espionage charges has left the country in shock. But it's also worrying Western agencies like the CIA, which shares classified information with Germany.
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Oct 13, 2026
What do influencing, AI and health sciences have in common? They're all degree programs colleges have launched in the last few years to attract students looking for a new career path.
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Oct 13, 2026
The Vatican announced the Pope's diagnosis of lung cancer following surgery
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Oct 13, 2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle has been asked to resign as US ambassador to Greece following allegations that she sought payment from a Trump donor in exchange for access to administration officials
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Oct 13, 2026
President Trump has his eyes on Ohio, traveling there twice this week during a week packed with campaign stops. But his pro-Trump ads have hit a roadblock.
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Oct 13, 2026
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has proposed livestreaming the execution of a man convicted of the 2009 attack on Fort Hood. Some scholars say the idea is rooted in his religious background.
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Oct 13, 2026
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has just hit a milestone — for the longest distance traveled by an off-Earth vehicle.
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Oct 13, 2026
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has just hit a milestone — for the longest distance traveled by an off-Earth vehicle.
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Oct 13, 2026
Researchers all over North America are attaching tiny transmitters to Monarch butterflies as they begin their migration to Mexico, to learn more about their stops and challenges.
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Oct 13, 2026
The actor RJ Mitte has died. Best known for his role on Breaking Bad as Walter White's son, Mitte brought disability awareness to the hit show with his experience with cerebral palsy. He was 34.
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Oct 13, 2026
The price of diesel hit an all-time high in the U.S. in September. Can President Trump's deal for Russia to release more diesel onto the market bring the price down?
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Oct 13, 2026
There's a political standoff in India between the government and protesters over a controversial revision of the country's voter rolls
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Oct 13, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang chats with Michael Woodford of Columbia University, who was one of two Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Oct 13, 2026
Conservative lawyer Paul Clement seems to be everywhere lately. He is one of the most prolific people to argue before the Supreme Court in modern times.
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Oct 12, 2026
It's been a topsy turvy NFL season so far. We check in with Jason Gay from The Wall Street Journal about what has surprised him after five weeks of football.
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Oct 12, 2026
Emergency room departments are reporting soaring numbers of pediatric trauma accidents associated with micromobility devices. Experts and advocates agree that the federal government needs to step in.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Office of Army Cemeteries have returned the remains of 11 Native American and Alaska Native students who died while attending the Carlisle boarding school in Pennsylvania more than a century ago.
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Oct 12, 2026
Some South Korean schools have imported a U.S. educational model to boost literacy skills and independent thinking eroded by AI and a test-focused Korean educational system.
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Oct 12, 2026
Ukraine's leader says Russia is continuing to attack Ukraine and is ignoring an "energy ceasefire" declared by President Trump.
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Oct 12, 2026
This year's Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to two Americans, for their work on ways to limit booms and busts in the business cycle.
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Oct 12, 2026
Rising fuel prices are stressing household budgets in the Northeast, where many rely on heating oil to warm their homes.
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Oct 12, 2026
Leading researchers in heat exposure are coming together to reach a consensus on what we know — and don't — about the health benefits of sauna and its potential for treating and preventing disease.
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Oct 12, 2026
Desperate Iranians are finding work in Turkey to make ends meet, but many are being exploited and left with nothing but more debt.
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Oct 12, 2026
President Trump says his Monday executive order temporarily suspending federal taxes on diesel will be a big relief for farmers. Some farmers call it a campaign ploy with marginal impact.
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Oct 12, 2026
A Ukrainian company that got rich making smartphone-controlled cameras to watch pets at home now outfits first-person-view drones with an image recognition system powered by artificial intelligence.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Justice Department says the search is part of an "ongoing federal investigation", while Omar calls it "an attempt to target political enemies"
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Oct 11, 2026
NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Lindsay Owens, president of the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, about how companies using data to transform the products and prices customers see.
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Oct 11, 2026
As attacks continue to mount on shipping vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a seafarer's union official says some crews are being offered big rewards for making the crossing.
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Oct 11, 2026
Madi Bolanos and Anna Sussman's new podcast We Are Jane Doe, by KQED and Snap Studios, investigates rampant sex abuse at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Ca.
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Oct 11, 2026
NPR producers and film buffs Marc Rivers and Kathryn Fink reflect on when a film they showed their significant others didn't go over so well.
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Oct 11, 2026
Death doulas are non-medical professionals who help with end-of-life care. And their numbers are growing.
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Oct 11, 2026
NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Ukrainian Minister of Parliament, Oleksandr Merezhko, about the U.S.'s diesel deal with Russia will impact Ukraine.
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Oct 10, 2026
Saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins talks about the impact that winning a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship will have on his art.
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Oct 10, 2026
How NPR's team covering AI covers their increasingly important and fast moving beat.
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Oct 10, 2026
A reenactment of the Battle of Hastings, which took place almost a millennium ago, is drawing crowds of enthusiasts in the UK.
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Oct 10, 2026
Much of the Trump administration's economic policy has been inspired by successful industrial policies successful in East Asia, including those of competitor, China. Will those policies work in the U.S.?
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Oct 10, 2026
NPR's Joel Rose speaks with culture writer Louis Staples about his piece for Harper's Bazaar titled: Women Everywhere Are Talking About Cornell. Why Aren't Men?
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Oct 10, 2026
Tech workers gathered in San Francisco this week to talk about the opportunities they see for their industry, their mixed feelings about AI, and the high cost of living in the Bay Area.
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Oct 10, 2026
Isaias has become a tropical storm, moving towards the Tennessee Valley. Residents in the Florida Panhandle react to the destruction.
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Oct 10, 2026
Parts of the capital city of India, the world's largest democracy, are on lockdown. Protests over sweeping revisions to the voter rolls were met with a massive police crackdown.
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Oct 10, 2026
The center's executive director has named an agent who has worked with ZZ Top and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee as the head of programming for the arts institution.
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Oct 09, 2026
South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her lifelong defense of human rights and international law.
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Oct 09, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot a man in New York City. It raised tensions between the Trump administration and New York officials over the state's sanctuary policies.
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Oct 09, 2026
Hurricane Isaias in poised to make landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Alabama-Florida boarder. It will be the first hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since 2024.
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Oct 09, 2026
Planet Money traced many new beverage flavors to one laboratory that serves dozens of companies to see how new flavors are created and why we're seeing such an explosion of options right now.
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Oct 09, 2026
Hall of Fame football player and legendary coach Mike Ditka led the Chicago Bears to the team's only Superbowl in 1985. He died Friday at 86.
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Oct 09, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with New York Times fashion reporter Jacob Gallagher about President Trump's apparent choice to wear a suit from the budget menswear chain Jos. A. Bank.
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Oct 09, 2026
There's lots of debate over data centers and where they should be located. In a struggling rural town data center development can look a lot more attractive.
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Oct 09, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the "Satanic doo-wop" duo Twin Temple about their new album Doomed Lovers and what drew them to Satanism and the occult.
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Oct 09, 2026
Midterm election polls are everywhere but how much can one data point tell about who will win in November?
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Oct 09, 2026
New songs added to her 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl has shot the release up the charts.
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Oct 09, 2026
Isaias is expected to make landfall as the season's first Atlantic hurricane. Oil rigs and refineries on the Gulf Coast are evacuating, but experts don't anticipate much of an impact on gas prices.
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Oct 08, 2026
American doctors in Gaza tell NPR they saw patients suffering because of Israeli restrictions on aid.
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Oct 08, 2026
Facing legal challenges and public backlash at home, American tech giants are looking abroad for new opportunities in Australia. But the reception down under may not be quite as warm as they hope.
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Oct 08, 2026
Each week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry examines faith and sexuality. His new collection is "Love Between Men."
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Oct 08, 2026
Opera singers often leave their careers when their voices are at their best, because the workload isn't manageable anymore.
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Oct 08, 2026
People on Alabama's Gulf Coast have been preparing or evacuating as Hurricane Isaias is likely to make landfall late Friday as a possible category 2 hurricane with winds around 100 miles per hour.
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Oct 08, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., about the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln, after some 11 months away from its home base in San Diego, including support in the Iran War.
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Oct 08, 2026
Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer whose work helped put humans on the moon, has died at 90. She is also credited with formalizing the discipline of software engineering.
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Oct 08, 2026
Three major news outlets were back in court Thursday to convince a judge the White House is violating their constitutional rights by continuing to block their access to the president.
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Oct 08, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.Y., on a bipartisan pledge he is co-leading to assure that fellow House members accept midterm elections results.
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Oct 08, 2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has established a new clinic at the National Institutes of Health to study vaccine injuries. It's part of a larger administration effort on vaccine safety.
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Oct 08, 2026
AI-powered surveillance tools like Flock cameras have gotten a lot of media attention and public criticism, but there are many other lesser-known tools being deployed by local police departments.
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Oct 08, 2026
International Health Regulations mandate that countries share information about illness that may affect people beyond their borders. It's being put to the test after a Russian plague researcher died.
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Oct 08, 2026
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Oct 08, 2026
Even as the agency is tasked with drawing up new rules for crypto and prediction markets, its staffing and enforcement actions have dropped precipitously during the second Trump administration.
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Oct 07, 2026
The author Tomi Adeyemi has written fantasy all her life. Now, she has a new book out titled The Siren, which takes place in the real world.
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