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Dec 19, 2018
Steven Falk of Lafayette, Calif., has resigned because he says he cannot carry out policies that fail to address the urgent threat of a changing climate.
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Dec 19, 2018
Federal Reserve officials have signaled they're ready to raise the benchmark borrowing rate to a range from 2.25 percent to 2.50 percent, a move that would put them at the highest level in a decade.
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Dec 19, 2018
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that Americans are against the country becoming more political correct by a 52-to-36 percent margin.
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Dec 19, 2018
As the number of people who inject drugs and share needles has soared, the rate of infection with Hep C has climbed too. Yet many drug treatment patients aren't tested for the liver-damaging virus.
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Dec 19, 2018
A key step in running for president: laying out a foreign-policy vision showing he or she can command the military and keep the country safe. Several likely candidates are hard at work on this front.
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Dec 19, 2018
New research shared exclusively with NPR suggests that Pyongyang is refining its weapons technology through open scientific research. China leads the way in scientific collaboration with North Korea.
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Dec 18, 2018
The review comes in response to an NPR and Frontline investigation that revealed the failure of government regulators to identify and prevent dangerous conditions.
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Dec 18, 2018
The Senate voted in favor of legislation that would reduce sentences for some drug crimes and offer training programs for prisoners.
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Dec 18, 2018
After touring the two border facilities where Jakelin Caal was detained before she died, the congressional delegation called for better medical facilities and trained personnel at ports of entry.
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Dec 18, 2018
The judges acknowledged that the complaints are "serious" but noted there is no existing authority for lower court judges to hold Supreme Court justices accountable.
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Dec 18, 2018
The criminal and civil cases related to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are just beginning — and they raise a number of thorny questions about who is responsible for a tragedy.
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Dec 18, 2018
Latino USA's traditional episode for the new year is a remix of our favorite music pieces of 2018.
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Dec 18, 2018
In the Florida Keys, a US citizen is suing the Sheriff's office for detaining him on behalf of federal immigration authorities, who mistakenly identified him as a criminal alien.
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Dec 18, 2018
In a surprise policy change, the Department of Health and Human Services plans to speed the vetting of sponsors so that more migrant children can be released from custody.
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Dec 18, 2018
In this special holiday rebroadcast, Latino USA explores the special bond between Latinos and their grandparents
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Dec 18, 2018
The 600-foot long ship was stranded just a few hundred feet from shore. Curious onlookers gathered onshore to watch rescue operations near the English city of Falmouth.
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Dec 18, 2018
Every year, Reporters Without Borders investigates how many journalists were killed, imprisoned or held hostage. In 2018, the group saw an increase in every category.
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Dec 18, 2018
Marshall directed Big and A League of Their Own, among other films.
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Dec 18, 2018
As sales of plant-based substitutes like almond milk rise and cow milk sales decline, the meat industry sees a cautionary tale. With meat alternatives growing, Big Beef takes the fight to regulators.
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Dec 18, 2018
Accepting the peace prize, Dr. Denis Mukwege called for a global fund to compensate survivors of sexual violence. He's already laying the groundwork, but challenges loom.
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Dec 18, 2018
A new poll shows more than half of Britons would support holding another Brexit referendum. Prime Minister Theresa May warned a new vote would "do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics."
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Dec 18, 2018
The judge ordered both sides to file status reports by March 13. He said he has outstanding questions, including how the Russia investigation was impeded and the impact of Flynn's lies on the inquiry.
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Dec 18, 2018
The judge ordered both sides to file status reports by March 13. He said he has outstanding questions, including how the Russia investigation was impeded and the impact of Flynn's lies on the inquiry.
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Dec 18, 2018
With their country in economic catastrophe, tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled to the Caribbean country in recent years.
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Dec 18, 2018
The National Weather Service warns of "potentially life-threatening conditions" from strong rip currents and powerful waves.
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Dec 18, 2018
New regulations will bar the sale of the accessories that enable rifles to fire faster and require current owners to turn them in or destroy them.
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Dec 18, 2018
The New York attorney general's office detailed what it called "a shocking pattern of illegality" and said the foundation's decision to shutter was "an important victory for the rule of law."
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Dec 18, 2018
The New York attorney general's office detailed what it called "a shocking pattern of illegality" and said the foundation's decision to shutter was "an important victory for the rule of law."
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Dec 18, 2018
According to a new report, China's war against air pollution shows promising results. But there is evidence of backsliding as winter nears.
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Dec 18, 2018
"A new era of American national security in space begins today," the vice president said at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Dec 18, 2018
"A new era of American national security in space begins today," Vice President Mike Pence said at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Dec 18, 2018
The decision comes after Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, who had been a temporary replacement after John McCain's death in August, announced last week he would step down at the end of the year.
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Dec 18, 2018
A partnership between a mental health care provider and colleges is redefining emergency mental health care on campus - helping students get needed care without losing track of their academic goals.
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Dec 18, 2018
SpaceX had been scheduled to launch a new GPS satellite; Blue Origin was supposed to follow with its own launch for NASA minutes later.
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Dec 18, 2018
SpaceX had been scheduled to launch a new GPS satellite; Blue Origin was supposed to follow with its own launch for NASA minutes later. Two other launches were to follow.
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Dec 18, 2018
SpaceX is scheduled to launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Air Force sometime after 9:11 a.m. ET; Blue Origin will follow with a NASA payload at 9:30 a.m.
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Dec 18, 2018
The Trump administration hit Iran with sanctions after pulling out of the nuclear deal. That's hurt the Iranian economy — and emboldened hard-liners.
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Dec 18, 2018
Officers Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmolejo were struck and killed Monday night while investigating a call of shots fired.
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Dec 18, 2018
Officers Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmolejo were struck by a train and killed Monday night while investigating a call of shots fired.
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Dec 18, 2018
If implanted medical devices fail, patients and their insurers usually have to pay for repairs. That financial responsibility falls to them even when the problems were solely with the devices.
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Dec 18, 2018
Oyster harvests in the Gulf of Mexico have declined dramatically. Now scientists are working to rebuild oyster reefs, helped by settlement money from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Dec 18, 2018
Oyster harvests in the Gulf of Mexico have declined dramatically. Now scientists are working to rebuild oyster reefs, helped by settlement money from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Dec 18, 2018
More than 2,000 miners in Appalachia are dying from an advanced stage of black lung. NPR and Frontline have found the government had multiple warnings and opportunities to protect them, but didn't.
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Dec 18, 2018
Congress told the VA to expand its caregiver program to include pre-Sept. 11 vets, but the VA has failed to meet a deadline in the law.
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Dec 17, 2018
President Trump called the Army major a hero and vowed to review the case. To a military law specialist, it looks like "the commander in chief is putting his thumb on the scales of justice."
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Dec 17, 2018
About 10,000 Jewish refugees under the age of 17 were relocated through the rescue operation. Most never saw their parents again. The Claims Conference estimates there are about 1,000 still living.
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Dec 17, 2018
Booker is introducing a bill this week in response to an investigation by the Center for Public Interest and NPR. He calls drug firms' infiltration into Medicaid's decision process "nefarious."
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Dec 17, 2018
The network explained its decision, saying "there are grounds to terminate for cause, including his willful and material misfeasance" and failure to cooperate with the company's investigation.
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Dec 17, 2018
Deadly clashes in the country's Middle Belt have skyrocketed — and a new Amnesty International report says the government is exacerbating the crisis.
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Dec 17, 2018
The Holland Tunnel became the subject of a fervent petition to change which letters its holiday decorations should adorn. In what could be called a Christmas miracle, the Port Authority listened.
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Dec 17, 2018
Seven weeks after President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Ranil Wickremesinghe, the ousted premier got his job back. The move caps what has been a surprising showdown in the island nation.
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Dec 17, 2018
"I'm showing that trans women can be whatever they want to be: a teacher, a mother, a doctor, a politician and even Miss Universe," Miss Spain Angela Ponce said recently.
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Dec 17, 2018
"In fact, we're growing faster outside the [San Francisco] Bay Area than within it," says Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, a senior vice president of both Google and its parent company, Alphabet.
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Dec 17, 2018
The U.S. bank and two of its former bankers face criminal charges in connection with Malaysia's 1MDB scandal, which involves billions of dollars allegedly stolen from a development fund.
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Dec 17, 2018
A former Tennessee governor and U.S. secretary of Education, the Republican is currently the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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Dec 17, 2018
The Islamist militants have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government in Kabul — but a Taliban spokesman said Monday that they were speaking with the U.S., along with several other countries.
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Dec 17, 2018
The men failed to register as foreign agents, prosecutors say, and they even developed a plot to disguise the ultimate origins of payments they were receiving from Turkey.
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Dec 17, 2018
The studies for the Senate intelligence committee assess how broadly Russians wielded social media in order to reach millions of Americans and suppress Democratic and black voting.
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Dec 17, 2018
About half of all teens say they've tried to cut back on their phone use. But one of the girls we spoke with says that's hard when "it's obviously designed to be addictive."
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Dec 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia says the U.S. Senate's position as being "based on baseless allegations and accusations" that distort the truth.
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Dec 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia has angrily rejected the U.S. Senate's resolutions over the war in Yemen and senators' blaming of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
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Dec 17, 2018
The comet 46P/Wirtanen just made its closest approach to Earth in centuries. No word on the whereabouts of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Cupid, Donner or Blitzen (and Rudolph).
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Dec 17, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has befriended nationalist and far-right leaders who tend to be staunchly pro-Israel. But some Israelis say he's too lenient about their views on Holocaust history.
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Dec 17, 2018
Even a partial government shutdown would leave some 800 thousand government workers without pay over the holidays although many would remain on the job.
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Dec 17, 2018
The fables were gathered from people in the Congo Basin and illustrated with a touch of magical realism in the new book Congo Tales: Told By The People Of Mbomo.
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Dec 17, 2018
The six airstrikes did not harm any civilians, the U.S. says. The strikes targeted a camp in a remote area roughly 30 miles southwest of Mogadishu.
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Dec 17, 2018
Artist Julie Green, who also depicts the final meals of death row inmates, is now painting first meals of exonerees. The food is celebratory, but nothing compared to all those lost years, she says.
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Dec 17, 2018
Iraqi religious leaders officially initiated the restoration of Mosul's al-Nuri mosque yesterday. The mosque was destroyed as Iraqi forces reclaimed control of the city from the Islamic State in 2017.
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Dec 17, 2018
A federal judge in Texas rules the ACA is unconstitutional. What does this mean for American healthcare, and who will be affected?
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Dec 17, 2018
A Roman Catholic nun says a bishop raped her multiple times between 2014 and 2016. The bishop denies wrongdoing and is out on bail. Some Indian Catholics are blaming the nun for tarnishing the church.
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Dec 17, 2018
When Nikki and Danny Miller's two young sons developed strange symptoms, they began searching for a diagnosis. Their odyssey ended when a team of medical sleuths solved the case.
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Dec 17, 2018
President Trump's support for legislation that would reduce sentences for drug offenses stands in stark contrast to some of his calls to crack down on criminals.
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Dec 17, 2018
Joshua Harris wrote I Killed Dating Goodbye when he was 21 years old. It became the bible of the evangelical purity movement, which promotes putting off sex until marriage. His ideas have changed.
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Dec 17, 2018
The arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, followed by China's detention of two Canadians, escalated trade and security tensions that are now leading to travel jitters.
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Dec 17, 2018
A dramatic increase in vaping among high school students is the largest yearly change ever seen in a long-running survey tracking substance use and abuse by teens.
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Dec 16, 2018
The new law allows employers to ask staff to work up to 400 hours per year of overtime — but employers can delay payment for up to three years.
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Dec 16, 2018
The move comes at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and has already drawn condemnation from Moscow.
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Dec 16, 2018
Scientists have identified a giant bed of deep sea grass in Australia's Great Barrier Reef that may be absorbing millions of tons of carbon. But these so-called blue carbon sinks need protecting too.
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Dec 16, 2018
Celebrity cameos reappear to imagine a world where Trump lost the 2016 election.
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Dec 16, 2018
A tip from the U.S. Embassy alerted Cambodian authorities to a haul of at least 3.2 tons of ivory that shipped from Mozambique.
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Dec 16, 2018
Alaska fishermen who took advantage of new regulations allowing them to fish with a previously banned piece of gear are happy they saved their catch from hungry whales.
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Dec 16, 2018
A new study shows that creating an environment in which math is part of everyday life, can help kids do better in the subject.
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Dec 15, 2018
Nations agreed on rules to track the promises they made to reduce emissions, but did not set new emissions reduction goals necessary to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Dec 15, 2018
The bells return to Balangiga after 117 years in U.S. custody.
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Dec 15, 2018
Particularly striking are its well-preserved colors - light yellows, rich blues and a reddish-brown skin tone. Officials announced the discovery Saturday at the site in Saqqara, outside of Cairo.
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Dec 15, 2018
President Trump has tweeted that the interior secretary is stepping down at the end of the year. NPR's Scott Simon and Tamara Keith discuss the issue.
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Dec 15, 2018
So far this year, 61.34 inches of rain have fallen in Washington, breaking a 129-year-old record.
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Dec 15, 2018
Two years after East Liverpool, Ohio, gained notoriety from a viral photo of an overdosed couple, the community is coming to terms with its addiction problem — and taking tentative steps forward.
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Dec 15, 2018
The decision came on the eve of the final day of open enrollment for 2019 healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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Dec 15, 2018
The interior secretary is stepping down after a tumultuous two years, marked by mounting allegations of misconduct in office.
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Dec 15, 2018
Germany is seeing the return of wolf packs, and with them growing political tension over whether the animals pose too much of a threat.
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Dec 15, 2018
This week Butina admitted she wasn't just a student and Russian gun rights activist, pleading guilty to a count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent. NPR's Scott Simon talks with her lawyer.
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Dec 15, 2018
President Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, got three years in prison, and the publisher of the National Enquirer agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
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Dec 15, 2018
This week in the Russia investigations: Headlines and courtroom action are coming thick and fast in the final weeks of the year, but a core "collusion" case also looks weaker than it ever has.
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Dec 15, 2018
This week in the Russia investigations: Headlines and courtroom action are coming thick and fast in the final weeks of the year, but a core "collusion" case also looks weaker than it ever has.
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Dec 15, 2018
Also this week, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a bill that prompted thousands of teachers to protest this spring.
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Dec 15, 2018
Also this week, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a bill that prompted thousands of teachers to protest this spring.
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Dec 15, 2018
Since the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., last month, there's been more than 70 events - memorials, vigils and fundraisers — for the families of the victims.
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Dec 14, 2018
The utility has been under fire for its role in the massive gas pipeline explosion in 2010 in San Bruno, Calif.
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Dec 14, 2018
A ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional is likely to go to the Supreme Court. For now, the decision likely won't affect people who buy insurance on marketplaces created by the law.
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