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NPR's Jacki Lyden grew up with the Bark River in her backyard. She left the Wisconsin waterway unexplored, until recently. Floating down the river in a canoe with a historian, Lyden discovered a story that stretches from the Ice Age and the Black Hawk War to churning 19th-century mills.

There's international competition to get into Wyoming's fast growing wind energy industry. A Chinese wind company is seeking an edge by offering free training to former coal miners.

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California.

Chinese propaganda paints the U.S. as a big, bad foreign power out to hold China down. This kind of rhetoric is as old as China's Communist Party, as it celebrates its 100th birthday this month.

Vikings were ruthless warriors, but also preserved art. This has inspired a new album of Lullabies for Piano and Cello from composer Gabríel Ólafs.

Remembering Young Dolph, the Memphis rapper who uplifted collaborators, fans and family

Increasingly, Americans pay for the privilege of seeing a doctor. Research shows concierge medicine can further hamper access to care for those who can’t afford the upgrade.

The record-breaking bridge measures roughly 1,692 feet long and is suspended more than 570 feet above a rushing river. Officials in the town of Arouca called it "frighteningly beautiful."

Memorial Day weekend is usually one of the busiest on Florida's beaches.But Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Friday that won't be the case this…

In the recorded conversation, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he didn't believe Donald Trump would voluntarily step down.

European leaders are coming to the U.S. to visit President Trump in order to shore up support for Ukraine. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to visit the White House Thursday.

Suze Rotolo, who strongly influenced Bob Dylan's songwriting and walked beside him on the album cover for The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, died of lung cancer on Friday. She was 67. Fresh Air remembers Dylan's muse with excerpts from a 2008 interview.

The Vatican said the 84-year-old pope had been diagnosed with "symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon," a reference to a narrowing in the large intestine.

Their physical and emotional health had withered in the pandemic year. But reentry into post-vaccination life made for tricky choices, too.

Twenty-seven years after his death, the life and work of John Cheever are in the spotlight again. A new biography chronicles Cheever's chameleon-like evolution, and moves beyond his alcoholism and his affairs to show the writer's lighter side.

Hedge fund manager James Altucher says that the way to make money with minimal stress is to invest in lasting demographic trends like identity theft, chocolate and women's legs. He discusses his new book, The Forever Portfolio, and offers his top 10 stock picks.

This has been said repeatedly, but it's worth repeating: There is nothing preventing the president from releasing his taxes while under audit.

A new report from NOAA and NASA confirms that last month was the hottest July ever recorded, driven to new heights by human-caused climate change.

Economic data show higher prices and constant warnings of a downturn haven't slowed down American shoppers. The Fed is anxious. Companies are thrilled.

The Freedom Mine No. 1 in Pike County was the focus of an unprecedented federal court action in which the Labor Department was seeking to have the court seize control of the mine.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Marc Duvoison, the editor in chief of the San Antonio Express-News, about the shooting that left 15 dead at a Texas elementary school and is known about the shooter.

The surge in gun violence and homicide mirrors in Oakland, Calif., mirrors an uptick in killings nationally as many cities are on track to match or surpass last year's terrible murder toll.

Looking over the state of U.S. science funding these days, it's hard not to get depressed. But the BoldlyGo Institute challenges us to remember that the stakes are too high to give up.

Food and surrealism make bizarre bedfellows in Les Diners de Gala, first published in 1973. Now, you can get a reprint of those recipes and illustrations — and a peek into his legendary banquets.

U.S. dating customs can be a bit unusual. (Swipe right ...) Let's see how people look for potential partners in other corners of the world.