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By Susan Giles WantuckThere's a long history of business owners pushing back against efforts by the city of Sarasota to put paid parking downtown.Sarasota…

They include stricter rules involving investments in Iran, and an end to a credit for frequent toll-road users.

Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mike Pesca for his take on the sports news of the week.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is finishing his high stakes visit to China with another round of diplomatic talks in an effort to cool tensions between the two countries.

Everybody knows that you're not supposed to smoke while you're pregnant because it's bad for the baby. But nicotine patches often used to help women quit may pose a risk, too, researchers say. Other forms of nicotine replacement may do less harm.

"We can all finally celebrate. The whole country together," says Opal Lee, 94, who has been working for years to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

"I never want people to feel like fantasy and romance and magic and adventure belong to just one kind of person," the fantasy author says. A new Netflix series is adapted from her works.

Guest host, Jackie Judd, reads from listener comments.

Commentator Rose Nolen re-evaluates the inalienable nature of the Bill of Rights.

Seniors, their families and states are eager to keep older Americans in their homes and out of nursing homes, but those efforts are often thwarted by worker shortages and low pay.

In a new book, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his son and grandson discuss how to feed a growing planet. "We've been fortunate to make a whole lot more money than anybody can spend intelligently on themselves, so the object is to spend it intelligently on the rest of the world," says the senior Buffett.

American journalist Suki Kim spent six months teaching English at a North Korean University that serves the sons of the elite. She chronicles her experience in a new book, Without You, There Is No Us.

It has been one year since Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek shared his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis. The one-year survival rate for such patients is 18 percent.

So what is it that makes one cookbook stand out over another? Curiosity, for one. A need to learn more about a culture, cuisine, or technique. A desire to perfect a Mexican pozole, Korean pancake, Japanese pickle, or French-style cake.

The Tiny Desk Contest is back! Check out our first entry: Maiah Wynne's "Mama," a haunting folk tale.

Spirit Airlines is known for a lot of things: Low fares, fees for virtually everything, and even its rate of complaints. But the airline also gets its name out there with snappy and sometimes raunchy ads.

Out of more than 6,000 entries, the musician selected as the winner of the Tiny Desk Contest created something "captivating," "serpentine," "beautiful," "unusual" and "tremendous."

Violence has exploded in Port-au-Prince since Sunday when the Haiti's interim prime minister was fired amid political infighting.

A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.

Arday was 37 when he became Cambridge's youngest Black professor in 2023. He was found unresponsive Friday at a home in southwest London.

Most goods that the European Union exports to the U.S. will be taxed at 15%.

Renee was in an emotionally abusive relationship. At the airport one day, she said a stranger helped remind her that she's worthy of compassion.

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and older adults are at higher risk. But only about a quarter of patients eligible for screening are up to date.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

The sad spectacle of Gaza's bombed-out airport doesn't deter Palestinians from hoping to someday have another airport of their own.