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Electronic line judging has replaced humans at the U.S. Open. But the voices making calls are real people, recorded with varying levels of urgency to sell the call, depending on how close the shot is.

Neurobiologist James McGaugh, one of the world's experts on human memory, says that a woman he calls AJ has a one-of-a-kind memory. In an interview with NPR, she talks about what life is like for someone who can remember things she’s done and news events from almost every day of her life for the past 25 years. Her life is like a split-screen movie, with the past running almost as vividly as the present.

NPR's David Greene talks to Lukas Nelson about a new album, hunkering down with family, silver linings and focusing on what's important in life.

The Final Four in the NCAA men's basketball tournament is set with Duke, Auburn, Florida and Houston advancing from the Elite Eight. Andscape's Jesse Washington fills us in on what to expect.

The Indiana State Fair is exhibiting prize dairy cows amid the threat of bird flu, which has been detected in cattle from 13 states.

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles could make or break Trump's second term. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.

The debut album by the "drivers license" phenom plays like one bottled-up soliloquy after another, bursting from a quiet observer who has been paying closer attention than you think.

A new study finds that hotter nights caused by human-driven climate change are eating away at hours of sleep every year.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. economy is on a path to recovery thanks to the Fed's rescue plan and the stimulus. Total weekly unemployment claims hit their lowest since the pandemic began.

Maria Pappas is the treasurer of Cook County, Ill., but also is the star of her own unique calendar that has developed a cult following.

The first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court says Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Ladder of Saint Augustine," has been a guiding principle. Jackson's new memoir is Lovely One.

Ahead of the release of Letter To You, The Boss spoke to Morning Edition about revisiting older material, finding hope in these unusual times and attending to his audience's spiritual needs.

The 4-1 vote came the council heard public comments from he proposal's opponents and supporters, including Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo.

Proposed federal budget cuts to health and social programs would affect about 8 million seniors living in poverty. Many rely on state and federal support that the Trump Administration wants to cut.

President Trump won the state of North Carolina by a narrow margin in this year's election. But rural counties gave Republicans even more votes than they did in 2016.

Tim Curry, who died on Tuesday at 80, is remembered as an actor who threw himself into things, whether as Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or Pennywise the Clown in "It."

Sometime before the end of this year, the state of Florida will have a new website with health care prices for patients. It's the result of a 2016 law...

Stalker 3 is the title given to video of Russian troops being ambushed in Chechnya. It's being shown as art in a Manhattan gallery. The title is a play on the title of the Russian film classic, Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky. David D'Arcy reports.

The nation's first new nuclear reactor in over 40 years is about to go into full operation in Georgia. But it comes at a steep cost to electricity customers and follows years of construction delays.

David Rodigan has spent his entire life exulting in and exalting reggae. In his autobiography, published earlier this year, the soundman stays away from a topic that would seem utterly central.

In Steven Soderbergh's supernatural thriller Presence, a family finds they aren't alone in their new house. It's a ghost story told masterfully from the ghost's point of view.

There's no causal link between taking acetaminophen and autism in an offspring, yet some studies point to a correlation. What does that mean? And who should parents listen to?

Ceasefire in south Lebanon fraying as US-Iran talks stall

It's a bad time to be a world leader. COVID did that.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA playoffs and the retirement of one of the league's greatest coaches.