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Lawmakers in Texas are in a Republican-led special session to try to redraw voting districts for Congress. Other states may also end up with new House maps soon before next year's midterm election.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," the latest TV iteration of the nearly 60-year-old franchise, debuts its third season on Paramount+ this week. NPR spoke with members of the cast.

President Trump is calling for the resignation of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook after a Trump ally accused her of making false statements on mortgage applications.

Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.

Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.

The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.

When more humans participate in a game of tug-o-war, each individual puts in less effort. But the opposite is true in weaver ants, according to new research in the journal Current Biology.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Trump national security adviser John Bolton about the president's upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The TV prequel to the Alien movies calls back to the best elements of those original films — including questions about corporate exploitation and technological advancements.

Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

The president will meet with Putin on Friday in Alaska. A former secret service agent shares how the service plans last minute trips like this, especially one with major geopolitical implications.

A new effort led by Hollywood composer John Frizzell seeks to connect people with autism to each other through bluegrass.

Trump announced the Kennedy Center Honorees on Wednesday. They are Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss, George Strait and Michael Crawford.

Latino voters helped deliver the White House to President Trump in the last election. Many of them already say they won't vote for Republicans next year, but they aren't yet turning to Democrats.

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

The Boston Public Library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard University and OpenAI to increase public access to hundreds of thousands of historically significant documents.

With Israel's prime minister pushing for a full occupation of Gaza, some of Israel's exhausted soldiers are pushing back and calling for an end to the war.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Amanda Anisimova beat Naomi Osaka in the U.S. Open semifinals early Friday in a tense, three-set match. Both players have been climbing up the rankings after taking mental health breaks from the sport.

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times the city has been under tighter federal control.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.