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The president seems intent on keeping everyone on their toes, but it's not at all clear that there's a strategy behind it all.

The move comes after a U.S. district judge rejected a 2020 decision by the federal government to shift permitting authority to the state for projects that affect wetlands.

Firmly anchored in the stuff of southern legend, The Drive-By Truckers' songs are full of love and loss. They played songs from their latest album, A Blessing and a Curse, at NPR's studios.

NPR's Juana Summers tracks the advocacy efforts of husband and wife Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya as they try and change the landscape for ALS patients.

It has been 50 years since Cash recorded his legendary live album. At Folsom Prison boosted his then-flagging career and highlighted his efforts to reform the nation's penal system.

After 10 years of liberal government in South Korea, the political pendulum is about to swing the other way in the country's presidential election Wednesday. The former mayor of Seoul, the conservative standard bearer, leads a field of 12 candidates, but he has been tainted by financial scandal. Still, his principal challenger, a former minister in President Roh Moo-hyun's Cabinet, admits that it will be a miracle if he wins.

President Obama announced Tuesday he is nominating Ben Bernanke to another four-year term as head of the Federal Reserve. Simon Johnson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says while Bernanke must be lauded for his improvisation, his role in the conditions that led to the financial crisis must also be examined.

Hurricane Ida alone caused more than $60 billion in damages, making it one of the five most costly U.S. hurricanes on record since 1980. Forecasters ran out of names for a record second year in a row.

For the first time, political parties in Jordan are enabled to play a bigger role, relying on their platforms, amid fears of a wider war in the region.

Moderate Democrat Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey tells NPR's Rachel Martin that he will wait to see how the Congressional Budget Office scores the plan before he commits to giving it his vote.

Expanding gambling throughout Florida seems to be a lost bet this year in Tallahassee. But does the state really get six times the money that people lose…

Ian roared ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. EU officials are concerned about explosions at Nord Stream pipelines. Britain's pound weakens to a record low against the U.S. dollar.

"It took me a long time to find my audience ... but I always knew they were out there," says Morgan, who started doing stand-up as a mom in her mid-30s. Her new Netflix special is I'm Every Woman.

The Mexican singer's song, whose title means "If They Kill Me," is nominated for best singer-songwriter song at the 2023 Latin Grammys, which takes place Thursday in Seville, Spain.

The country is eagerly anticipating Monday's total solar eclipse.And local school districts are taking different approaches to the historic event.Nearly…

Allie Brosh's popular Web comic/blog hybrid, Hyperbole and a Half, features MS Paint-style doodles and seemingly everyday stories about things like cake and dopey dogs. Hyperbole is now out in book form, containing a mix of old and new material including two funny but unsparing essays on Brosh's struggles with depression.

Every visit to the grocery store it seems we're faced with more and more plastic packaging. We visit a grocery store with a recycling expert who has some tips.

Consecutive heatwaves have ushered in summer in Spain.

Xavier Lopez used to visit his local theater a lot. Now that he's vaccinated, he speaks to us about getting ready to go to the cinema for the first time in over a year.

It's called a use tax. Accountants and tax lawyers are some of the only people who pay it.

Looking at Claire Rosen's photographs can feel like walking into someone else's dreams. In her new book Imaginarium she provides inspiration and advice for curating a creative life.

Coates writes about race and social issues for The Atlantic. His new book, Between the World and Me, brings to bear his fear that his life and the lives of his loved ones might end unnaturally.

Authors Philip and Erin Stead have turned 16 pages of Mark Twain's notes — on a serial bedtime story he wove for his daughters — into a new children's book, The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.

You've heard of cover songs — now, a group of authors are writing cover plays, retelling the works of Shakespeare in their own words. Jeanette Winterson leads off, reimagining The Winter's Tale.

After briefly reaching a category 4 status overnight, on Wednesday morning Hurricane Gonzalo was back to a Category 3 storm. However, now, Hurricane…