Democrats saw major wins in Tuesday's elections, from California's redistricting ballot measure to gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and the mayoral race in New York City. We discuss what ...

Richard Thompson's legendary rock and roll roots date back to the '60s, when he co-founded Fairport Convention. His World Cafe roots don't date back that far, but they are still significant. This show ...

ATLANTA — Democrats flipped two seats on Georgia's statewide Public Service Commission by wide margins, one of many surprise victories for the party Tuesday up and down the ballot in the handful of ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Johannesburg, known to locals simply as Joburg, has long been dubbed ...

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

The Trump administration is firing scores of immigration judges, and bringing on dozens of others, as it seeks to boost mass deportations. NPR analyzed patterns in hiring and firing. The Trump ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet's worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration will reduce air traffic by 10% at many busy airports, the agency said Wednesday, in a move intended to keep the nation's airspace safe during the ...

Florida graduate student Alexis Brake is doing something pretty unusual. Not only is she pursuing a combined M.D./Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Miami, Brake has decided to steer clear of ...

NPR's senior political editor/correspondent Domenico Montanaro joins the newsletter today to break down the 2025 off-year elections. Today marks day 36 of the ongoing government shutdown, making it ...