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President Obama hosted Thursday a bipartisan health care summit, in a bid to bridge deep divisions between the two parties on health care.

With their podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim, hosts Zahra Noorbakhsh and Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed want to shake up labels. Ahmed says, "We're taking the good and we're sort of re-imagining it for ourselves."

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel about his study estimating that more medical papers may be made up or plagiarized than previously thought.

Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has made clear he doesn't like talking to the media. But has his stance helped or hurt his Beast Mode image?

Ivanka Trump's new book — named after her brand's marketing campaign — is packed with anodyne advice borrowed from others, and a striking lack of awareness about economic and racial realities.

The Guardian has identified its source for a series of reports it published in recent days on secret U.S. surveillance activity. The paper says the source is Edward Snowden, a former technical assistant for the CIA who now works for a private-sector defense and technology consulting firm.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the 16 migrants, who turned up in Sacramento, had documentation that appeared to have been issued by Florida.

Thousands of Americans and other foreigners are trying to flee Sudan. Some are making it to Saudi Arabia, but getting out is dangerous and foreign governments are offering limited support.

The power outages from superstorm Sandy stranded some people in the upper stories of New York's public housing complexes. Marianne McCune ventured up the dark stairs of the La Guardia Houses on the Lower East Side, and found 87-year-old Margaret Maynard toughing it out.

Small social justice nonprofits in Minnesota were flooded with donations after the murder of George Floyd three years ago. But how much has changed in the larger picture of philanthropy.

Hoang Hong, founder of the environmental group CHANGE VN, was arrested Wednesday on tax charges, the U.N. says. Human rights experts say Vietnamese officials use the law to target civil society.

In The Right-Hand Shore, Christopher Tilghman returns to the racially charged landscape and the crumbling plantations of his book Mason's Retreat. Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan calls the prequel "the real deal."

The heroine of Jonathan Evison's new novel is 78 years old, chronically drunk and talks to the ghost of her dead husband. Critic Jason Sheehan says the book portrays "darkness with a forced smile."

Explaining climate change can be a challenging job, particularly in areas where the public is more wary of the science. Some climate experts in the Midwest and Great Plains have faced death threats.

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

A US farm has started equipping its goats with GPS collars so they can be fenced in electronically, with no physical fence necessary.

Explaining climate change can be a challenging job, particularly in areas where the public is more wary of the science. Some climate experts in the Midwest and Great Plains have faced death threats.

A second group of U.S. House lawmakers toured the building where Parkland high school students were massacred in 2018.

It's been centuries since camel caravans crisscrossed Eurasia along the Silk Roads. Now historian Peter Frankopan's new book puts the fabled roads at the center of a new view of world history.

People in Gaza are fleeing an impending ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Morning Edition host Leila Fadel, who is in Israel.

The British police have launched a new inquiry into claims of illegal phone-hacking by journalists at one of the country's biggest newspapers. Reporters at the News of the World, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., are alleged to have hacked into the voicemails of members of the royal family, senior politicians and media celebrities, hoping to discover scandalous details of their private lives. Although News Corp. initially denied the allegations, the affair has led to the resignation of the prime minister's head of media, a former News of the World editor, and the sacking of a senior editor at the paper.

The British government is setting up a new terrorism task force following last week's brutal killing of a soldier by men wielding cleavers and knives. The task force will look at whether new laws are needed to clamp down on those who promote religious extremism.

David Greene talks to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts, who answers listener questions about the history of U.S.-North Korea relations.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees to Walt Disney World’s governing district have released a series of reports justifying their takeover of the government and accusing their Disney-controlled predecessors of being a part of “the most egregious exhibition of corporate cronyism in modern American history.”

With a record number of oil, gas and coal representatives at this year's COP28 climate talks, climate scientists worry industry influence could water down language on fossil fuels.