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With credit card interest rates near modern highs, President Trump says he wants to cap the rates for one year.

Metropolitan Ministries is losing 30 staff members because of the trickle-down effects of federal actions to downsize AmeriCorps, a national volunteer collective.

Fraternities have received plenty of negative press recently, both for hazing incidents gone wrong and for sexual assault at campus parties. Several young men across the U.S. explain why they joined.

Reggie Love went from playing sports at Duke to working as Barack Obama's personal assistant. His new memoir, Power Forward, describes what he learned on the campaign trail and in the White House.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Chris Bennett about his work as a running coach on the Nike Run Club App.

Florida's expansion of Medicaid will provide health insurance coverage to more than a million people. Florida will also become the seventh state headed by a Republican to agree to take the federal offer to provide Medicaid to all state residents with incomes up to about $15,000 a year.

A lawsuit could change how realtors are paid, potentially lowering costs for buyers and sellers. Here's how a personal injury lawyer unexpectedly took on the U.S.'s biggest professional organization.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss Donald Trump's rise as he becomes the likely GOP nominee and the Democratic primary race.

Florida's agriculture commissioner wants raises next year for state forestry firefighters, as well as money to buy and maintain active farm land --- items…

Critic John Powers says Mick Herron's latest novel sucks you in from the opening page, and a Netflix series imported from Germany is both fun and binge-able.

Some companies are building businesses on a plan to "enhance" rock weathering, one natural pathway that moves carbon from the atmosphere into deep pockets of the Earth.

The bill passed in the Florida Legislature reduces how long criminal background checks can be used to keep a former inmate from applying for a barber or cosmetology license and allows any inmate enrolled in barber or cosmetology classes while incarcerated to apply those credits toward getting a license.

NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with tech journalist Kara Swisher about Elon Musk's tumultuous takeover of Twitter.

Medicare has announced that it will pay for primary care providers to counsel obese patients on losing weight and maintaining the weight loss. Medicare will pay doctors, nurses and physicians' assistants to help plan weight loss programs.

in the 1950s, a former army GI published a budget guide that changed how a lot of people thought about travel. We remember Arthur Frommer, who died this week at 95.

President Biden delivered remarks that included clues about the path forward after the expiration of the eviction moratorium and the way states should be handling masking and vaccination.

Trucking company Yellow is shutting down after taking a $700 million federal pandemic loan three years ago. The closure would mean the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs — 22,000 of them Teamsters.

Democratic presidential candidates want to see who can be the most generous when it comes to alleviating higher education costs. Sen. Bernie Sanders aims to cancel $1.6 trillion in student loan debt.

A VA-sponsored committee looked into the needs of female veterans. The fact-finding committee's report also focused on outreach to connect women to a wide range of benefits.

Yotam Ottolenghi and his head chef Ramael Scully discuss NOPI, their latest cookbook. It's named for the popular London restaurant that Ottolenghi owns and where Scully is head chef.

Cartoonist Matt Freedman chronicled 60 days of cancer treatment in illustrations and in writing. "I didn't think of it as a book or a journal to share," he says, "but simply as a kind of experience."

One provision in Georgia's controversial law that particularly worries many officials is a new ability for the State Election Board to take over a county's election management.

About 90,000 people spent months in limbo as central Missouri's major medical provider fought over insurance contracts. These disputes between insurers and hospitals are a recurring problem.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to British Ambassador to the U.S. Karen Pierce about how a new American president changes how the United Kingdom fits on the world stage.

NPRs Michel Martin speaks with Dorsa Derakhshani, who defied her government by playing chess internationally without a hijab.