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The over use of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic resistant infections. A series of new studies shows how hospitals are still grappling with the superbugs unleashed during the pandemic.

Some of the wildest country in the U.S. is in Washington state's Cascade Range, reached by old logging and jeep roads that give way to high alpine trails. NPR's Brian Mann sends an audio postcard.

The Senate failed to advance two partisan bills that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked as the shutdown drags on.

Argentina's libertarian president, Javier Milei, faces midterms amid economic chaos and a $20 billion lifeline offer from President Trump.

Automotive experts say during extreme winter weather conditions there is one big factor that can affect the performance of your car more than anything else: your tires.

Urofsky has been the station's general manager for 23 years overseeing tremendous growth and change.

Members of a union representing federal workers said it has been waiting for guidance from the CDC and its parent agency on whether telework will be considered an accommodation under its revised policy.

At a resort in Mexico, Julie Moore flew off a waterslide and hit the water hard. She became disoriented and began to lose consciousness. Then, she felt hands grab her and pull.

The number of beekeepers doubled in Florida over the last decade. The vast majority of them are backyard beekeepers.

Veterans of the FBI are demanding answers after more senior executives left the bureau recently without a clear explanation for their termination.

In a video statement, Trump said Kirk's death was a direct consequence of people demonizing those they disagree, and then turned his ire to the political left.

White House economist Stephen Miran appears likely to win confirmation for a job on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, after a contentious hearing Thursday.

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday.

China signaled Sunday that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump, urging the U.S. to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats.

NPR talks to pop superstar Ed Sheeran about his new album, "Play."

Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano was named to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS on Monday, making him the latest member of the Trump administration to be put in charge of multiple federal agencies.

Palestinians in Gaza are slowly bringing back Christmas celebrations after more than two years of war. The Holy Family Church in Gaza City gathered this week to decorate the church.

Hungary is sending all people seeking asylum to a camp on its border with Serbia to temporarily live in converted shipping containers. Hungary's government says it's to keep out terrorists.

President Trump has officially pardoned a former Honduran president who U.S. officials said was at the center of one of the world's largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies.

China is conducting big military drills that encircle the island of Taiwan on Tuesday, demonstrating its ability to blockade Taiwan completely.

The move comes after a federal judge wrote in a court document that the "charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney … must come to an end."

For only the second time ever, the Securities and Exchange Commission is charging a state with fraud, for allegedly misleading investors about the health of its pension funds. The SEC says the state of Illinois did not properly inform investors that its pension funds were significantly underfunded when selling bonds from 2005 to 2009. This is the latest fiscal black eye for a state with a pension shortfall approaching a whopping $100 billion. The state has agreed to settle the charges.

A Seattle widow's one-stop estate planning advice blog was inspired by her own paperwork frustrations after her husband's death. Chanel Reynolds offers a checklist of documents to prepare, a will template and a list of details to write down, like passwords to online accounts.

Just days before President Trump heads to the U.K. for a state visit, the U.K. has fired its ambassador to the U.S. over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.