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Sep 22, 2026
Three days after ICE agents shot and injured Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin, Texas, questions linger about the details around this enforcement operation.
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Sep 22, 2026
Employees at a group of privately-run juvenile detention facilities across Tennessee failed to report suspected physical and sexual abuse to the state, and were allegedly discouraged from calling 911.
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Sep 22, 2026
The Department of Health and Human Services announced something it's never done before - canceled the health insurance of 760,000 individuals enrolled in plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
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Sep 22, 2026
In her new show, comedian Pooja Reddy busts stereotypes as her youth in rural Kentucky takes center stage.
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Sep 22, 2026
The Black Mississippi teen's family questions whether his race contributed to his July 4th death on an island off the Mississippi coast.
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Sep 22, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president, at the UN General Assembly.
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Sep 22, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers talks with David Rubenstein, a Baltimore native, philanthropist and investor who leads an ownership group that acquired the Baltimore Orioles in 2024.
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Sep 22, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with media consultant and television producer Mark McKinnon about the launching of Trump TV, an official White House Youtube channel, streaming 24/7.
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Sep 22, 2026
Home gardening is getting a boost, in part, from fears of foodborne illness. But is homegrown safer? Experts weigh in.
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Sep 22, 2026
Bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska have been bulking up on salmon before winter. On Tuesday, annual voting kicks off for the favorite.
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Sep 22, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Seth Center, a former U.S. diplomat who has previously negotiated with China regarding AI concerns, about his doubts around this week's China-U.S. summit.
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Sep 22, 2026
In May 2025, many countries signed a pandemic treaty aimed at avoiding some of the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic. But countries are still negotiating the heart of the treaty.
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Sep 22, 2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest financial disclosure reveals he accepted free flights to Fiji and Greece and lucrative book advances.
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Sep 22, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott about President Trump's speech to the United Nations and America's place in the world.
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Sep 22, 2026
OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.
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Sep 21, 2026
Nigeria's lavish wedding tradition is colliding with a cost-of-living crisis, forcing young couples to rethink how they say "I do."
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Sep 21, 2026
During Typhoon Halong in 2025, thousands of objects from an archeological dig site in western Alaska were endangered. Now, there's an emergency dig.
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Sep 21, 2026
During Typhoon Halong in 2025, thousands of objects from an archeological dig site in western Alaska were torn from the earth and scattered across miles of coastline. Now, there's an emergency dig.
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Sep 21, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Bloomberg's Jeff Mason, past president of the White House Correspondents' Association about President Trump's decision to ban three major news outlets from the building.
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Sep 21, 2026
A 16-year-old fell asleep at the wheel while on a hunting trip with his dad. Pinned in the wreckage with a fire starting, he thought he was going to die -- until a trucker pulled over to help.
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Sep 21, 2026
New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert died recently, after a battle with cancer. NPR remembers the founding member of the punk rock bank.
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Sep 21, 2026
President Trump's exertion of power over the press, Greenland and even the D.C. landscape are teeing up questions over the president's limits.
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Sep 21, 2026
CNN, MS Now, and Politico are suing the Trump administration after being barred from the White House. Other TV networks are boycotting the White House press pool in solidarity.
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Sep 21, 2026
On Wild Card, famous guests open up about topics we don't often talk about. Journalist John Dickerson talks about his relationship to death.
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Sep 21, 2026
After decades of making parody music, Weird Al has new generations of fans. His Tiny Desk Concert saw an audience of people in their 60s and kids who could have been their grandchildren.
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Sep 21, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Tara Copp of The Washington Post about her reporting on the Defense Department's accounting of U.S. troops who've died over the course of the war with Iran.
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Sep 20, 2026
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Kristin Duncanson, a farmer in Minnesota, about how record high fuel prices are affecting her business.
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Sep 20, 2026
Former U.S. deputy national security advisor Anne Neuberger is watching for signs of competition and cooperation on artificial intelligence at President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping's summit this week.
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Sep 20, 2026
There's a long history of killer AI in cinema. Today, those works of fiction feel more real than ever.
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Sep 20, 2026
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Director Maya Annik Bedward about her new documentary, Black Zombie.
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Sep 20, 2026
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks to Sayre Quevedo, creator of the "Reaching Out' podcast, about his and his brother's journey to find their biological father.
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Sep 20, 2026
Pakistani authorities raze hundreds of homes of the working poor living around a beloved Sufi shrine to make way for Shanghai-style hotels.
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Sep 20, 2026
President Trump has a big week on the international stage, from the United Nations General Assembly to hosting the Chinese president at the White House.
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Sep 20, 2026
Tee up those entries: It's time for the next NPR College Podcast Challenge, and hear how the contest changed the lives of past participants.
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Sep 19, 2026
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about worries that Russia's "hybrid attacks" could lead to a direct military confrontation with NATO.
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Sep 19, 2026
China is cracking down on underground churches, with one church leader finding refuge in the U.S.
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Sep 19, 2026
The far-right AfD is campaigning in neighborhoods it previously would never have gone near, marking a noteworthy shift in the left-leaning capital city, where local elections take place on Sunday.
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Sep 19, 2026
Over the years NPR's Michele Kelemen has seen high stakes diplomacy play out at the UN General Assembly.
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Sep 19, 2026
The President of Sacramento State talks about their Black honors college -- and how schools are dealings with DEI under the Trump administration.
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Sep 19, 2026
The President of Sacramento State talks about their Black honors college -- and how schools are dealing with DEI under the Trump administration.
This story was produced with support from the Education Writers Association's Reporting Fellowship program.
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Sep 19, 2026
Researchers in Taiwan are racing to restore a crucial piece of the island's film history, before it's lost forever.
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Sep 19, 2026
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Adéla, about the rising popstar's debut album, Prima.
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Sep 18, 2026
Carly Rae Jepsen has now been releasing critically-acclaimed pop music for more than a decade. And Friday, she's out with her eighth album, called Day and Night.
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Sep 18, 2026
Lane Kiffin brings his LSU Tigers to the University of Mississippi for a highly-anticipated football game. Kiffin led Ole Miss for the past few seasons but bolted for LSU, angering many.
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Sep 18, 2026
The center, a beacon of American arts and culture, is slated to be closed after a board vote. On Friday, a group called Hands Off the Arts is holding what they call a "joyful protest" outside.
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Sep 18, 2026
In spite of growing calls for Congress to take action on AI, the House went home early and won't be back until after this November's midterm elections.
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Sep 18, 2026
Russians head to the polls to choose lawmakers for their parliament, the Duma. It's Russia's first nationwide parliamentary race since launching its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Sep 18, 2026
After the Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a fine freeze, a man has returned an overdue magazine published in 1894.
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Sep 18, 2026
The DOJ is making it easier for people convicted of felonies to have their gun rights restored. An estimated 330,000 people are expected to apply through the new process, which opens in mid-September.
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Sep 18, 2026
Status trackers are ubiquitous on online apps and ordering. We have the story the seminal Domino's Pizza Tracker that led to many copies, and we check on why many of the trackers now aren't accurate.
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Sep 18, 2026
Rhiannon Giddens is out with a new album. For her latest project — called Hope is the Thing With Feathers — Giddens went with BIG emotions.
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Sep 18, 2026
When it comes to housing, what's considered affordable all depends on how much you make. This could matter in a state that is home to a key Congressional race this election season.
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Sep 18, 2026
The International Rescue Committee warned that its goals of ending poverty, hunger, disease are failing. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the IRC's president about how to reverse course.
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Sep 18, 2026
Diesel prices soared to another record high today, averaging $6.44 a gallon. Trucking, farming, and flying is getting more expensive. But so far it hasn't crimped most Americans' spending.
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Sep 18, 2026
President Trump threatens to ban three major news organizations from the White House. It's his latest salvo in an ongoing war on the media.
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Sep 18, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations' president emeritus, about the Polish prime minister's warning that Russia may be planning attacks on NATO countries.
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Sep 18, 2026
An informal network of dialogues at think tanks and universities is bringing together experts from the U.S. and China to talk about the shared perils of AI — and possible paths forward.
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Sep 18, 2026
A bacterial infection is wiping out Florida's citrus trees. Growers hope a rootstock developed with gene-editing technology could keep the disease at bay.
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Sep 18, 2026
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
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Sep 17, 2026
Texas officials have tried to take action to punish clinics encouraging "birth tourism." But there are laws that can be used there, if there's evidence and they're enforced.
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Sep 17, 2026
A new study on ancient human remains finds evidence for the habitual use of betel nuts, dating back to the Ice Age. The finding offers some of the oldest archaeological evidence of psychoactive drug use, and potential insights into how use of betel nuts, now popular for their stimulant effects, evolved.
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Sep 17, 2026
A bombed-out building in Gaza sheltering around 100 people collapsed, and there are hundreds more like it that could, too
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Sep 17, 2026
The saga of Ed Sheeran and Macklemore continues, which began with a political statement on stage, now involves billionaire sports team owners, musicians quitting a tour and millions in donations.
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Sep 17, 2026
Paleontologists have discovered the tracks of a giant — the fossilized footprints of T. rex. Plus, solar "superflares" and the brain benefits of reading in this week's Short Wave science news roundup.
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Sep 17, 2026
There is growing concern that President Trump may deploy U.S. military to polling places in the upcoming elections, despite strict state and federal laws against such a move.
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Sep 17, 2026
A 12-year-old idolizes his father who is just home from prison in this intense but tender drama from writer-director Walter Thompson-Hernandez.
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Sep 17, 2026
Everyone is talking about the spectre of AI catastrophe. Can the U.S. and China agree on guardrails to blunt the biggest risks when their leaders meet next week?
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Sep 17, 2026
The president made the remark to reporters amidst back-and-forth developments in federal court, including an allegation that a forklift repeatedly struck the center.
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Sep 17, 2026
The president made the remark to reporters amidst back-and-forth developments in federal court, including an allegation that a forklift repeatedly struck the center.
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Sep 17, 2026
Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras explains a surprising new trend in Latin music that's been bubbling for awhile.
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Sep 17, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group, about the latest developments between Canada, the European Union and the U.S.
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Sep 17, 2026
The loud noise from massive gas turbines never stops at Elon Musk's data center near Memphis. Residents are suing.
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Sep 17, 2026
The cryptocurrency industry just suffered a major defeat in a bill they had badly wanted to get through the Senate. It's the latest setback in a terrible year for the sector.
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Sep 17, 2026
This spring Jessie Diggins retired as one of America's most successful winter Olympic athletes at age 34. She's relaxing by entering 100-mile trail running races and navigating what comes next.
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Sep 17, 2026
Many questions come up during pregnancy. Is swelling normal? Are avocados safe to eat? For folks in Kenya who don't have a search engine at their fingertips, a chatbot is offering a lifeline.
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Sep 17, 2026
Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall?
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Sep 17, 2026
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children.
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Sep 16, 2026
No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.
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Sep 16, 2026
Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear before the committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a deposition. Now it's up to the Department of Justice whether to pursue criminal charges.
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Sep 16, 2026
Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear before the committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a deposition. Now it's up to the Department of Justice whether to pursue criminal charges.
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Sep 16, 2026
Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear before the committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a deposition. Now it's up to the Department of Justice whether to pursue criminal charges.
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Sep 16, 2026
It takes a group of dedicated volunteers to make sure mountain trails are wide enough so everyone can have fun.
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Sep 16, 2026
In Liberia, the government gave cash transfers to couples to see if it would help solve problems that arise when partners disagree about how to manage money.
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Sep 16, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the reporter of a story that shows how the Department of Homeland Security is feeding information to local police as part of DHS' Predictive Intelligence Unit.
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Sep 16, 2026
The Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates has broader political and economic implications, with affordability top of mind for voters ahead of the midterms.
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Sep 16, 2026
Argentina has produced some of the world's greatest soccer players. Could its youth system offer lessons for the United States?
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Sep 16, 2026
Wired reporter EJ Dickson speaks with NPR's Juana Summers about an online community that targets and harasses young women with their own nonconsensual, sexually explicit images.
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Sep 16, 2026
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today Wednesday the first time in more than three years. The central bank is trying to curb stubborn inflation, which was rekindled by the war with Iran.
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Sep 16, 2026
Gene technology is giving hope to citrus farmers in Florida who are fighting greening disease, which has been killing their trees for two decades.
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Sep 16, 2026
Timeliness is a big component of work and for those whose job is in sports, timing can be everything.
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Sep 16, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers talks with ProPublica data reporter Andrea Suozzo about their investigation looking into the rise in deaths related to ectopic pregnancies.
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Sep 16, 2026
The European Union's top official backs the Canadian prime minister's push for his country to become the bloc's first "associate member," as Brussels seeks to deepen ties amid pressure from the U.S.
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Sep 16, 2026
Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.
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Sep 16, 2026
Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like cerebral palsy. Ethicists ask if it changes how these mice should be treated.
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Sep 15, 2026
Billions of dollars worth of gold is held in Turkish households outside the banking system. The government aims to convince citizens to put it into the mainstream financial system to help the economy.
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Sep 15, 2026
Over the past week, fears of AI wiping out humanity are surging. But could it happen? And if so, how?
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Sep 15, 2026
NPR gains rare access to the Israel-occupied zone of southern Lebanon.
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Sep 15, 2026
As many as 50,000 Israelis are leaving the country a year, study shows, tired of war and hardline politicians.
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Sep 15, 2026
A federal appeals court panel in D.C. hears arguments Tuesday on the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrant truckers. Critics say that will do little to make the nation's roads safer.
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Sep 15, 2026
At the Emmys, The Pitt and Widow's Bay took home big wins. There were some beautiful moments, awkward jokes and surprises too.
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