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Sep 13, 2025
Utah State University students, where Charlie Kirk was supposed to speak at the end of the month, respond to the governor's plea to disagree constructively.
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Sep 13, 2025
The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is being held without bail in a Utah jail. Steve Futterman has the latest on the investigation.
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Sep 13, 2025
Chancellor Sonya Christian of the California Community College system talks about the impact of funding cuts for students.
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Sep 13, 2025
A new exhibition in London shares David Bowie's archive, tracing his personas and evolution as a musician and artist.
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Sep 13, 2025
NPR's Tamara Keith examines President Trump's response to the Charlie Kirk assassination along with his reaction to a 2017 political shooting and other moments of political violence.
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Sep 13, 2025
A child injured in an airstrike in Gaza gave a reporter the words to express the full impact of war.
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Sep 13, 2025
As ICE immigration enforcement intensifies across the country, a Supreme Court ruling permits racial profiling as grounds for immigration stops.
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Sep 12, 2025
Starting this season, shot attempts taken more than 36 feet from the basket will be counted against the team, not the player. These NBA "freebies" have drawn all types of reactions.
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Sep 12, 2025
President Trump announced that the man who authorities say shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been arrested. Investigators identified him as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.
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Sep 12, 2025
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting a coup. Yet the former president remains one of the country's most consequential figures.
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Sep 12, 2025
Workforce participation for moms in the U.S. has been dropping for most of this year, and the reasons are more complicated than return-to-office mandates. The team from "The Indicator" explains why.
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Sep 12, 2025
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor play early 20th century music students in filmmaker Oliver Hermanus' poignant queer love story.
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Sep 12, 2025
Spinal Tap, the band from the beloved 1984 mockumentary about a fictional rock band, is back! Their new movie is called Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.
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Sep 12, 2025
Those whose homes burned in the Los Angeles fires are making tough choices about whether to rebuild or move. A new project offers a third option: relocating homes to fire-affected lots.
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Sep 12, 2025
Responding to "exploding" demand, a college in Denver now offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mariachi music. Students learn music and culture, but also business skills to build viable careers.
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Sep 12, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Justin Wilson about his Pokemon card collection, and he shares his tips for ascertaining a card or collection's value.
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Sep 12, 2025
HIV has been in retreat around the world. But with cuts to foreign aid, it's less clear where the trend lines go from here. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to author Emily Bass about the future of the virus.
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Sep 12, 2025
An anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil has lived outside of the White House fence for more than 40 years. President Donald Trump ordered the vigil to be "dismantled" this week.
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Sep 12, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with King Princess about their new album, Girl Violence.
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Sep 12, 2025
Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that - if untreated - can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now it's making a comeback.
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Sep 12, 2025
Herb Alpert got his start playing trumpet in L.A.'s public schools. He wants to help make that "magic" possible for students.
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Sep 12, 2025
Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.
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Sep 11, 2025
For the first time ever, a non-Champagne has won a prestigious international award for best sparkling wine. Ari Shapiro talks with head winemaker of England's Nyetimber, Cherie Spriggs, about the win.
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Sep 11, 2025
Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.
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Sep 11, 2025
Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes. Now the science is precise enough to test one of Stephen Hawking's key ideas.
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Sep 11, 2025
Hundreds of South Korean workers are headed home after last week's dramatic immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. The images of handcuffed workers sparked outrage in Seoul.
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Sep 11, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan, about the U.S. intelligence community and national security.
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Sep 11, 2025
Colleges and universities often grapple with whether to invite controversial speakers on campus, usually allowing it given the First Amendment. How will this change the approach for such events?
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Sep 11, 2025
Democrats and Republicans are walking a fine line when it comes to the politics surrounding the Hyundai plant ICE raid, because many in Georgia spent years building ties with South Korean companies.
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Sep 11, 2025
After six seasons on television, and now a third big-screen outing, the Crawley family saga has another installment with Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
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Sep 11, 2025
The Sept. 11 attacks of 24 years ago led to unprecedented investment in counterterrorism resources. Today, the terrorism landscape is more complex than ever, and some say the country is less prepared.
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Sep 11, 2025
Charlie Kirk's followers are in shock and grief over his assassination. As they try to make sense of his killing, many are also asking what's next for the movement he started.
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Sep 11, 2025
Kirk's death has forced his legions of young conservative followers to confront the question of how to sustain the movement that he built.
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Sep 11, 2025
Charlie Kirk, who founded the campus activist group Turning Point USA, was arguably the most influential voice in young conservatism and played a pivotal role in President Trump's return to the White House.
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Sep 11, 2025
A late summer run for NPR's Brian Mann featured an abundance of ripe, wild berries and a dip in the river.
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Sep 10, 2025
Conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem. Deseret News Reporter Emma Pitts was an eye witness to the shooting.
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Sep 10, 2025
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has died after he was shot during a speech he was giving at Utah Valley University.
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Sep 10, 2025
Tuesday night, NATO fighter jets shot down Russian drones that had entered the airspace of Poland. NATO's secretary general says this underlines the need for Europe to better arm itself.
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Sep 10, 2025
As coverage of this year's crop of COVID boosters hangs in the balance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership, what is the vaccine supply situation this year?
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Sep 10, 2025
As President Trump prepares to give up control of D.C.s police department, Mayor Muriel Bowser has tried to balance opposing Trump with appeasing him. Other Democrats could soon face the same dilemma.
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Sep 10, 2025
Rising housing costs are pushing more seniors into homelessness, and now one in five homeless people are older than 55. One program rolls together Medicare and Medicaid funds to get seniors housed.
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Sep 10, 2025
Sound can be a useful tool for scientists monitoring wildlife populations. But what if you're trying to monitor species in a raging river? A new tool helps cut through all of the noise.
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Sep 10, 2025
NATO jets shot down Russian drones that entered Polish airspace overnight, and Poland invoked NATO's Article 4. Mary Louise Kelly talks with former deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller.
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Sep 10, 2025
Exposure to chemicals is listed as a potential driver of chronic disease in children in a new MAHA report, but critics say RJK Jr. has backpedaled on pledges to reduce pesticides used in agriculture.
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Sep 10, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Washington Post reporter Alex Horton about internal documents from the National Guard assessing public sentiment about the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
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Sep 10, 2025
ABC's The Bachelorette has chosen The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul as their Season 22 Bachelorette.
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Sep 10, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to author Stephen Greenblatt about Dark Renaissance, which explores the life of Christopher Marlowe — the playwright he describes as "Shakespeare's greatest rival."
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Sep 10, 2025
Charlie Kirk, CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was shot Wednesday at an outdoor rally at a Utah college.
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Sep 10, 2025
Israel pulled out thousands of settlers from Gaza 20 years ago. Some now dream of going back.
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Sep 10, 2025
Oregon's Sauvie Island on the Columbia River includes wild stretches of beach, deep forest and dense thickets of luscious blackberries. NPR's Brian Mann sends an audio postcard from a trail run with breaks for berry-picking and swimming in the big river.
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Sep 10, 2025
The lawsuit from three senior and lauded FBI agents at the bureau says Trump administration demanded loyalty for those staying at the bureau.
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Sep 10, 2025
Beverly Cleary's fictional third grader with an adopted dog named Ribsy made his debut in 1950. Cleary was praised for writing simple, humorous stories that kids wanted to read.
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Sep 10, 2025
Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.
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Sep 09, 2025
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author Elizabeth Gilbert opens up about trying to understand that she wasn't a bad person.
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Sep 09, 2025
President Donald Trump has promised to crack down on crime in Chicago. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep spoke with Governor Pritzker in Chicago about the potential for racial profiling.
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Sep 09, 2025
As the United Nations turns 80, NPR examines its legacy, its current challenges, and what lies ahead for the world's multilateral body.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Nation's Report Card was released for 12th grade math and reading, along with 8th grade science. Scores dipped across the board, following a decade long decline.
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Sep 09, 2025
They developed a computer model that estimates how easily Roman and Celtic travelers navigated rivers thousands of years ago.
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Sep 09, 2025
This past summer's box office was sluggish, but over the weekend, Hollywood found help in the form of the devil. The Conjuring: Last Rites ended up having the top horror movie opening of all time.
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Sep 09, 2025
Twenty dance projects from around the country won grants totaling $100,000 dollars each today. These grants are among the most coveted in the dance world, but this round of winners is the last of its kind due to a funding shortage.
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Sep 09, 2025
Nepal's army chief has threatened to "take control of the situation" as protesters attack politicians and burn down parliament and government buildings a day after security forces killed 19 people.
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Sep 09, 2025
The tariffs have become a flashpoint, with two lower courts declaring them illegal, and the president asking the Supreme Court seeking reversal as soon as possible.
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Sep 09, 2025
The UnitedHealthcare CEO's alleged killer was in the same Brooklyn jail as Diddy and Sam Bankman-Fried. A satirical comedy about their jailhouse vibe is selling out theaters — and raising eyebrows.
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Sep 09, 2025
Author Dan Brown is known for storylines that delve into myth and conspiracy theories. His new book — The Secret of Secrets — tackles the ultimate mystery: human consciousness.
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Sep 09, 2025
Here are some of our favorite high school podcasts from this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge. In its seventh year, the contest received nearly 2,000 entries from students all around the country.
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Sep 09, 2025
In a major escalation, Israel targets Hamas leaders in Qatar, which is a key mediator in the Gaza conflict.
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Sep 09, 2025
Wikipedia has often faced criticism for accuracy, but now the attacks are becoming political. One reporter says that's putting Wikipedia at risk.
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Sep 09, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with New York Times' Matt Goldstein, who reported on the money from Jeffrey Epstein to J.P. Morgan Chase — concluding that the bank enabled his crimes.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Make America Healthy Again commission is proposing more than 100 moves to address the root causes of childhood chronic disease. Critics say other Trump administration moves contradict the goals.
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Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday marks 60 years since Sandy Koufax threw a perfect game at Dodger Stadium. The 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs is still considered one of the best games in baseball history.
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Sep 09, 2025
Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.
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Sep 08, 2025
Temperatures in Europe are increasing at twice the average global rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps disappear, Europe's biggest rivers are losing a crucial source of their summer water flow.
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Sep 08, 2025
Ryan Routh, the man accused in the attempted assassination of then-GOP presidential candidate Trump, goes on trial Monday with the start of jury selection. Opening statements are planned for Thursday.
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Sep 08, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.
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Sep 08, 2025
French Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a confidence vote in parliament after nine months in office. The far-left and extreme-right joined other parties to stop his plans to cut the budget deficit.
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Sep 08, 2025
Thousands of students without legal status are back in Texas university classrooms, but this time having to pay as foreign students, after the in-state tuition law was halted by a June court ruling.
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Sep 08, 2025
The owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and dozens of other media properties has settled a legal fight with three of his own children over who would control his companies after his death.
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Sep 08, 2025
The owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and dozens of other media properties has settled a legal fight with three of his own children over who would control his companies after his death.
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Sep 08, 2025
Hamas praised a Palestinian shooting attack that killed six Israelis at a bus stop in Jerusalem. The U.S. presented a new truce proposal and Israel stepped up Gaza City attacks.
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Sep 08, 2025
The U.S. presented a new truce proposal as Israel steps up Gaza City attacks and a deadly bus shooting is reported in Jerusalem.
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Sep 08, 2025
The Agriculture Department has started to issue guidance on how states should implement new work requirements for people who get food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Sep 08, 2025
What is the best apple? Granny Smith? Macintosh? If you've ever wondered, there's a website for you. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Brian Frange, the founder of applerankings.com
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Sep 08, 2025
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume immigration raids in Los Angeles. Chief Justice John Roberts also temporarily barred lower courts from reinstating a member of the FTC.
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Sep 08, 2025
After several days of uncertainty and tension in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security announced it is launching an ICE operation in Illinois.
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Sep 08, 2025
After President Trump sparked congressional redistricting fights in Texas, California and Missouri, some advocacy groups are pivoting their strategies against partisan gerrymandering.
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Sep 08, 2025
The efforts to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products, even as gun violence experts say that won't address the root of gun violence.
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Sep 08, 2025
As dozens of boats set sail in the largest civilian attempt to break Israel's naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, protesters in cities across Italy are holding "ground support" events for the flotilla.
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Sep 08, 2025
Angeline Boulley, author of the hit Firekeeper's Daughter, writes thrillers set in Native American communities in northern Michigan, like the ones where her family has lived for generations.
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Sep 08, 2025
In 1980, Elaine Batchelor was attacked on a night train while backpacking alone in Europe. Two strangers stepped in and stayed by her side for the rest of the 12-hour ride.
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Sep 08, 2025
FIFA is set to launch the first window of regular ticket sales for the 2026 World Cup on Wednesday. Brace yourself: because they may not be easy to get — or cheap.
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Sep 07, 2025
A lively review of cases when people both in front of and behind the camera took on a project that deviated from their past work, and whether it paid off or not.
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Sep 07, 2025
Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in the United States — and a new podcast, "The Country In Our Hearts" from WPLN, tells the story of the diaspora.
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Sep 07, 2025
Bishop Michael Pham, head of the San Diego diocese and the first American bishop installed by an American pope, talks about his priorities and his involvement in immigration issues.
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Sep 07, 2025
In Brazil, Bolsonaro supporters rally on Independence Day as the verdict looms in the former President's historic coup plot trial.
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Sep 07, 2025
Botanical gardens from around the world testing who has the strongest lily pad.
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Sep 07, 2025
The Labor Department released another disappointing jobs report this past week. A month ago, a government number cruncher got fired for that. How much faith should be put in the government's economic data?
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Sep 07, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert A. Pape of the University of Chicago about what happens when democracies use military force to occupy their own territory. Weeks of talk of sending federal troops into Chicago has set the city on edge.
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Sep 07, 2025
Sharing your living space with roommates is not easy. NPR's Life Kit has tips for keeping relationships with your roommates copacetic.
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Sep 06, 2025
WBEZ's Adriana Cardona Maguigad reports on reaction in Chicago as Trump renews threats to send in National Guard troops and increase ICE enforcement.
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Sep 06, 2025
The Boston Globe's Jason Laughlin explains how Massachusetts and other states are forming independent healthcare coalitions to fill in the gap on healthcare policy left by sweeping federal changes.
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