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With the 2-0 start against ranked teams, the Bulls are emerging as the class of the Group of Five conferences, with spots in the AP and coaches polls. Coach Alex Golesh will point out the season is very young.

Actress and style icon Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Known mostly for comedy, the Oscar-winning star of "Annie Hall" had an impressive, wide-ranging resume.

Nearly seven decades ago two Black women, bound together by military service, helped end discrimination on interstate buses. Their often overlooked story in civil rights history is getting attention.

The Florida congressman is proud to be the one to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That move hasn't won him any prizes with House Republicans but his constituents want to see more just like it.

In the late 1980s, Stephanie Garber was driving through downtown Silver Spring, Md., when a large pickup truck hit her car. A woman swooped in to offer her a cup of tea and compassion.

For StoryCorps, a husband and wife, who are both more than 100 years old, talk about how they met and fell in love.

Allison Tant sent a pained letter to the Democratic Party faithful after last week’s election that saw Democrats lose more seats than they gained...

Fans, fellow NBA athletes and the mayor of Phoenix all took to social media to voice their reactions. "That is insane," one fan, Joe Brooks, told NPR. "I can't believe that they actually did it."

We meet a man who serenades tourists in a Boston park with songs of their homeland in their native language. He's got a song for almost any nation.

Finding missing items isn't a matter of "looking harder." There's an art and a science to it.

Cutesy, homespun goods that combine old-fashioned and modern aesthetics are proliferating. But don't be mistaken: There's a powerful economic force behind it all, says author Marc Spitz.

Chesapeake Bay is at a turning point. Once severely polluted, the bay has seen major improvements in recent years. But President Trump's proposed budget would slash key programs.

The comedian turned his life around when he started "WTF with Marc Maron" out of his garage in 2009. He has parlayed the popularity of the podcast into a new television show called Maron, based on his life, as well as a new memoir.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with American writer Louis Ferrante about his latest book, "Borgata: Clash of Titans: a History of the American Mafia."

After Larry Black Jr. was shot in the head, he was prepped for organ donation until his neurosurgeon raced to the operating room to stop it, saying he had a chance at life. Today, Black is sharing his story.

Here are 3 letters from our reader callout: one to a hesitant dad, one to thank a dad who got his jab after many cancellations and one to all vaccine-hesitant folks after an uncle died from COVID.

Tani Adewumi's family fled Nigeria after being threatened by Boko Haram. They were living in a homeless shelter when Tani won the primary division at the New York State Scholastic Chess Championship.

The latest decisions track closely with bills in the Legislature to effectively ban TikTok for all public employers, including state and local government agencies, public schools, colleges and universities and more.

“I do worry that he is not helping further penetration of EVs into the car market” and might make people leery of buying a Tesla, an electric vehicle owner and enthusiast in Michigan tells NPR.

Jon Scieszka — dad, teacher and author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales — shares the books he plans to give to the kids on his list this year.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Patricia Lockwood on her new novel, No One Is Talking About This. The book follows its protagonist down an Internet wormhole until a real-life event snaps her out of it.

More pregnant women are being diagnosed with dangerously high blood pressure, which risks the life of the parent and child. Montana is one of the states improving screening and treatment.

As commissioner, Bud Selig led Major League Baseball through a major restructuring. He was also at the helm during the 1994 strike and the steroid era. He's candid about it all in a new book.

The combination puzzle known as Rubik's Cube has been giving people carpal tunnel for 50 years now. The cube's creator explains why he did that to us.

Families and friends met in airports for the first time in over a year after Australia and New Zealand opened a "bubble" of quarantine-free travel between their countries.