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Dec 03, 2025
A new report says Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth risked a U.S. bombing mission in Yemen back in March when he shared extremely sensitive attack plans on Signal, a publicly available messaging app.
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Dec 03, 2025
The traditional press corps at the Defense Department has been replaced with an unusual assortment of far right media personalities and outlets. The Pentagon held it's first press briefing for them.
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Dec 03, 2025
A non-profit affiliated with Grand Canyon National Park has been hosting free dinners for park employees and those who work in park-dependent businesses, to show they're valued and appreciated.
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Dec 03, 2025
NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels. With no evident progress toward ending Russia's war on Ukraine, European leaders in both NATO and the EU are redoubling efforts to provide military back-up.
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Dec 03, 2025
Homeland Security announced that federal agents began an operation in New Orleans targeting immigrants in the country illegally. It's the latest city to face a widespread immigration crackdown.
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Dec 03, 2025
In rural Minnesota, transportation options can be limited. But a local transit system hopes to change that with the help of a fleet of autonomous vehicles.
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Dec 03, 2025
The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week.
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Dec 03, 2025
At a White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars.
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Dec 03, 2025
With childhood vaccination rates already declining, a vaccine advisory committee to the CDC considers changing the vaccine schedule, including dropping the universal hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.
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Dec 03, 2025
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Emily Vinson started a new job at a pizza place. She fainted on her first day — and a customer came to the rescue.
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Dec 03, 2025
Israel has revealed new technology it deployed in Gaza and other battlefields in the last two years of war, and a laser it will begin to deploy to intercept missiles.
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Dec 03, 2025
Some people spend their retirement traveling or playing golf, but the volunteers with Philadelphia's Senior Environment Corps see themselves as watchdogs for the local environment.
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Dec 03, 2025
After blistering attacks by President Trump on the Somali community in Minnesota, local leaders in Minneapolis and St. Paul are defending Somali-Americans.
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Dec 03, 2025
Americans' most loved Italian food staple could soon double in price or disappear from supermarket shelves following tariffs imposed by the Trump administration that could go into force from January.
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Dec 03, 2025
Brief glitches in video calls may seem like no big deal, but new research shows they can have a negative effect on how a person is perceived by the viewer.
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Dec 03, 2025
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.
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Dec 02, 2025
A bitter dispute between East Asia's biggest powers, China and Japan, has moved to the cultural front. With both sides unwilling to back down, experts say it could be a protracted feud.
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Dec 02, 2025
The Trump administration fired immigration judges in New York on Monday. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jeremiah Johnson Executive Vice President of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
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Dec 02, 2025
Librarian Dorothy Vogel, who, with her late husband Herb, amassed a priceless collection of contemporary art in their one bedroom apartment, died on Nov. 10.
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Dec 02, 2025
U.S. farms increasingly depend on foreign workers, but ICE raids have exacerbated the agriculture labor crisis. Some farmers want to make it easier to hire people from abroad using a visa program.
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Dec 02, 2025
U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Moscow to present the Ukraine peace proposal.
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Dec 02, 2025
NPR has been following the money behind veterans' disability claims — specifically, for-profit companies that help vets navigate the VA's red tape. Critics of the companies call them "claim sharks."
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Dec 02, 2025
Calgary artist Jeff De Boer has spent decades learning, perfecting, and teaching the art of making suits of armor. For mice.
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Dec 02, 2025
A special election in what should be a safe seat for Republicans has proven to be more competitive than expected as polls close Tuesday.
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Dec 02, 2025
A standout entry from our NPR College Podcast Challenge was a story about two sisters: One a college junior, the other a soldier in the U.S. Army.
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Dec 02, 2025
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth defends his role in a military strike against suspected drug traffickers in the Carribbean. Members of Congress are demanding more answers.
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Dec 02, 2025
Since 1914, Denver, Colorado, has maintained a small bison herd in a park outside the city. In recent years, an Indigenous group has slaughtered one annually to feed urban Native people.
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Dec 01, 2025
Afghans who were in the process of seeking asylum in the United States have had their hopes repeatedly dashed under this Trump administration. In the U.S., they live in fear of ICE detention.
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Dec 01, 2025
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
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Dec 01, 2025
Several studies suggest that people in red states have more babies than those in blue states. A new report from a conservative-leaning group says that could have implications for politics and culture.
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Dec 01, 2025
We meet a man who serenades tourists in a national park in Massachusetts with songs of their homeland in their native language. And he's got a song for almost any nation.
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Dec 01, 2025
Hurricane Melissa leveled homes across Jamaica — now the country must figure out how to rebuild smarter before the next monster storm hits.
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Dec 01, 2025
Mikaela Shiffrin, a gold medal contender in the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy is on a tear early in this winter's alpine ski racing season. She's now won all three slalom races.
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Dec 01, 2025
Amid reports Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a Venezuelan boat, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine about how Congress is handling oversight of the Pentagon.
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Dec 01, 2025
AAA says the average price of gasoline nationwide has dropped to just over $3 per gallon.
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Dec 01, 2025
The trade war and tariff changes are playing out like a soap opera. So our Planet Money team is checking in on the impacts one life at a time.
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Dec 01, 2025
After losing thousands of staffers and facing attacks this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hampered in its ability to protect the public from health problems and emergencies.
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Dec 01, 2025
After losing thousands of staffers and facing attacks this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hampered in its ability to protect the public from health problems and emergencies.
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Dec 01, 2025
As the FBI continues it's investigation in the shooting of two National Guard members last week, the shooting suspect's time in a CIA-backed unit in his native Afghanistan may provide some clues.
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Dec 01, 2025
Three elderly Austrian nuns recently fled a nursing home and broke into their former convent. They have rejected an offer to stay in convent if they promise to get off of social media.
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Dec 01, 2025
Fry bread is a popular food in many Native communities — but has a dark history. One student talks to her grandmother about its complicated place in Native culture.
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Dec 01, 2025
The pope is calling for interfaith harmony in a country still haunted by sectarian divides.
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Dec 01, 2025
Outside Reno, Nev., a massive data center campus is being built to support artificial intelligence. The center sits in the nation's driest state and will need billions of gallons of water to operate.
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Dec 01, 2025
The lifeblood of Silicon Valley — advanced microchips — pumps from a science park on Taiwan's west coast, mostly from TSMC, the world's biggest chipmaker. But now the company is looking abroad for places to grow.
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Dec 01, 2025
A new show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the origins and development of street art. What began in the 1970s with teenagers tagging New York subway cars has grown into a worldwide art movement.
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Dec 01, 2025
For the first time in three months, the White House is reopening for public tours, just in time for the holidays.
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Nov 30, 2025
Israeli PM Netanyahu seeks to end his corruption trial through a presidential pardon while facing new political and public pressure.
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Nov 30, 2025
Congress is investigating reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on survivors of a drug-boat attack, putting the legality of the recent U.S. military campaign under scrutiny.
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Nov 30, 2025
Dr. Sandro Galea, a distinguished professor in public health and dean of the Washington University School of Public Health, warns that the administration's turn toward alternative medicine risks sidelining science in federal health policy.
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Nov 30, 2025
Tasmania is launching Australia's first compensation program for men once criminalized under anti-gay laws, raising difficult questions about how to measure and remedy decades of harm.
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Nov 30, 2025
When the Zika crisis hit Brazil, women infected with the virus gave birth to babies with a debilitating condition. Some of the moms joined together to build a new life and to push for reparations.
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Nov 30, 2025
NPR's Marc Rivers and Mallory Yu revisit the movies that haven't aged well and explore why they fall apart on rewatch.
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Nov 30, 2025
In her debut novel, Marisa Kashino tells the story of a woman who goes to extreme lengths to secure her dream home, and becomes a nightmare to everyone around her.
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Nov 29, 2025
The aftermath of the D.C. attack has brought tightened security and new immigration limits from the Trump administration.
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Nov 29, 2025
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey discusses the D.C. shooting that targeted two Guard members from his state.
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Nov 29, 2025
For Mohammed Ibrahim's family, this Thanksgiving was the moment they had been waiting for.
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Nov 29, 2025
Negotiations to end the war resume as Ukraine confronts internal turmoil and continued Russian strikes.
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Nov 29, 2025
Pope Leo visits Istanbul's Blue Mosque and celebrates mass as he calls for peace and unity among Christians and Muslims.
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Nov 29, 2025
St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum examines whether Missouri Republicans can legally redraw districts mid-decade simply because the state constitution doesn't prohibit it.
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Nov 29, 2025
Rappahannock Chief Anne Richardson and Upper Mattaponi Chief Frank Adams talk about preserving Virginia's Indigenous history and correcting long-held myths on their podcast.
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Nov 29, 2025
The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.
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Nov 28, 2025
Amid NIH funding delays, clawbacks and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
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Nov 28, 2025
This Thanksgiving, a new animated film offers teachers a resource to talk about contemporary Native Americans with their students.
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Nov 28, 2025
Based on Maggie O'Farrell's acclaimed 2020 novel about William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, Chloe Zhao's beautiful film Hamnet tells a story of tragedy and the healing power of art.
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Nov 28, 2025
The Kid Governor program is a nationwide initiative that helps teach kids about government by holding elections. Nebraska just elected 10-year-old Charlie Couch as it's first kid governor.
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Nov 28, 2025
After more than 80 years, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire remains one of the nation's deadliest. Many safety lessons came from the tragedy that claimed more than 500 lives in Boston.
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Nov 28, 2025
States are suing the Trump administration over its plan to massively cut back long-term housing for homeless people. Advocates say the changes could push more than 100,000 residents onto the streets.
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Nov 28, 2025
If you lose your job in Denmark, it's not time to scream at the skies quite yet. The government has a unique set of policies called "flexicurity" designed to help get you back on your feet.
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Nov 28, 2025
Hackers are hoping to take advantage of the holiday season, and they're not just stealing money or data.
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Nov 28, 2025
If Virginia Democrats go ahead with redistricting, it would go a long way to countering the GOP and President Trump. But it would challenge the governor-elect's bipartisan image and anger Republicans.
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Nov 28, 2025
Pope Leo visits war-torn Lebanon but some in the country with the biggest percentage of Christians in the region are upset he's skipping the most battered part.
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Nov 27, 2025
With Inflation and an unpredictable economy, Christmas shopping might look different this season. Washington Post financial columnist Michelle Singletary talks about families can navigate things.
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Nov 27, 2025
From building homes to filling pantries to re-enacting medieval history for middle-schoolers - yes, you read that right - acts of volunteerism have remained vital for communities across the country.
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Nov 27, 2025
This Thanksgiving, Pope Leo is making his first overseas trip as pontiff. He started in Turkey, where he called for tolerance between different peoples and religions.
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Nov 27, 2025
A selective preview of the comedies, action adventures, dramas and awards contenders Hollywood has in store between Thanksgiving and the end of 2025.
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Nov 27, 2025
Haris Tarin, vice president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, outlines how the alleged DC shooter was vetted and what it means for Afghan immigration to the U.S.
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Nov 27, 2025
Officials are conducting a "coast-to-coast" investigation into the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., the FBI head said. The suspect had worked with the CIA in Afghanistan.
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Nov 27, 2025
Thanksgiving is of course a very American holiday. What, though, is an American overseas at this time of year to do — specially when it comes to eating turkey?
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Nov 27, 2025
Jiffy corn muffins are an iconic pantry staple that's been a part of family dinners for 75 years. Thanksgiving is peak season for the company, which has been run by the same family for five generation
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Nov 27, 2025
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Writer Suleika Jaouad talks about how she stays connected to people she's lost.
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Nov 27, 2025
Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.
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Nov 27, 2025
Many voters think the federal government should focus on lowering prices, including in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where some say they are concerned about the state of the economy.
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Nov 26, 2025
President Trump addresses the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The shooting happened just a few blocks from the White House.
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Nov 26, 2025
This Thanksgiving season, we remember Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's "founding mothers," who died this year. For decades, she shared a family recipe for cranberry relish with listeners.
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Nov 26, 2025
When the northern lights dramatically lit up skies across the country earlier this month, poet Silas House was among those of us dazzled from below.
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Nov 26, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, about the latest in the Trump administration's unconventional approach to negotiating a peace deal.
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Nov 26, 2025
Millions of Americans are flying to visit family and friends this holiday season. It's a big test of the U.S. aviation system after weeks of disruptions caused by the government shutdown.
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Nov 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is steeped in stories of pilgrims and native people enjoying a harvest feast in Plymouth. But historians say the first "Thanksgiving" was 23 years earlier, in 1598 along the Rio Grande.
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Nov 26, 2025
During the holiday season, young Scouts across the country work to collect food items for local pantries. It's an annual event, called Scouting for Food, that's more than 40 years old.
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Nov 26, 2025
PG-rated movies are leading the drive back to theaters following COVID, and the film industry has kids to thank!
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Nov 26, 2025
At tribal colleges and universities, students can get degrees while steeped in Indigenous traditions and learning techniques. Under the Trump administration, funding for them has been precarious.
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Nov 26, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to art historian Mary Okin about the significance and uncertain future of the historic murals painted inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C.
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Nov 26, 2025
The visit to Turkey and then Lebanon will be the first U.S. pope's first foreign trip.
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Nov 25, 2025
Winter hits early and hard in the high country of New York's Adirondack Mountains. It also brings wild, spectral beauty.
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Nov 25, 2025
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and other house Democrats released a video last week letting service members know they can refuse illegal orders. Kelly is now being investigated for misconduct.
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Nov 25, 2025
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and other congressional Democrats released a video last week letting service members know they can refuse illegal orders. Kelly is now being investigated for misconduct.
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Nov 25, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to have Sen. Mark Kelly court-martialed. We ask a former military lawyer if that's legal.
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Nov 25, 2025
The Trump administration hails "progress" in peace talks for Ukraine after an initial proposal was changed to address European and Ukrainian objections.
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Nov 25, 2025
Israel's Supreme Court has again pressed the government to explain why, more than two years into the war, it still bars independent journalists from entering Gaza.
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Nov 25, 2025
Viola Fletcher died Monday at the age of 111. She was one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre.
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