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Facing a declining birthrate, China will allow married couples to have up to three children. This raises the previous ceiling of two children.

The charges that R. Kelly faces in New York include racketeering "to prey upon young women and teenagers" and sexually trafficking these girls and women between states.

The number of American babies born prematurely has been creeping up, and nobody knows entirely why. An Institute of Medicine panel recommends a national effort to reduce these births, which cost the nation $26 billion a year.

Pope Francis visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos over the weekend, and called for more attention to migrant seekers.

The House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee approved an industry-backed bill that would reduce from 2.5 hours to 2 hours the minimum direct care that CNAs must provide per resident per day.

President Obama has proposed making tuition at community colleges free. But Youth Radio reporter Tylyn Hardamon found that paying for school is just one of many challenges facing today's students.

Award-winning sports journalist John Feinstein explains how he's gotten some of the most talented and temperamental athletes and coaches in the world to talk to him. His book One on One details his conversations with people like Bobby Knight, Tiger Woods and John McEnroe.

Sona Charaipotra's young adult novel might be familiar to back-in-the-day fans of Doogie Howser — it's about 16-year-old supergenius Saira, fresh out of med school and interning at a hospital.

An analysis found that firearm injuries of children in the state disproportionately hit families in a handful of ZIP codes, almost all of them in Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami or Tampa Bay.

Versions of the story of Bre'r Rabbit outwitting Bre'r Fox exist around the world. At heart, a new book argues, they're really about who controls access to food and subverting the powers that be.

Talk show host and The Real Housewives creator Andy Cohen's fifth book, The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up, describes how becoming a dad has completely changed his life.

Little-known businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are facing campaign finance charges. The case sheds light on the Soviet-born men's involvement in events at the heart of investigations into Trump.

JD Vance is the first veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan to appear on a presidential ballot. But he isn’t a hawk; he leads a contingent of war veterans in the GOP who oppose U.S. military intervention overseas.

About 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide will be captured annually from a coal-burning power plant near Houston. Then the CO2 will be injected into a nearby oil field to help boost crude production.

In Iowa, David Greene talks to Ann Selzer of the Des Moines Register and David Yepsen, former chief political correspondent at the Des Moines Register, now at Southern Illinois University.

The iconic rock 'n' roll pioneer and last living member of the "Million-Dollar Quartet" — whose meteoric rise collapsed almost as quickly as he ascended, thanks to scandal — has died at age 87.

The beloved pianist was a young lion of his generation until a hand injury forced him to rethink his relationship to music.

When someone dies, a lot of people honor the memory of a loved one with a funeral. Those who chose a traditional casket burial spend about $7,000 or...

Economou was the only woman nominated in the new category — something that surprised her. “There are just so many brilliant women voices in the video game music space,” she says. “I might be the first, but I'm not going to be the last, that's for sure.”

Bob Ong, 70, has been practicing the martial art for almost as long as he's been alive — from New York's Chinatown in the 1960s to Tampa today.

NPR's Noel King talks to climate scientist Allison Crimmins about the findings of the United Nations' landmark climate report, and what it means for U.S. policy actions.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called off his trip to China after the discovery of a Chinese "surveillance" balloon over the U.S. It's the latest setback in an increasingly fraught relationship.

In his first full week on the job, FBI Director Jim Comey expressed "intense concern" that sequester cuts could result in two weeks of furlough days for agents and the loss of 3,000 positions. He says it's a big national security worry.

In his latest book, Soul of Nowhere, author and Morning Edition commentator Craig Childs explorers the wild and dangerous desert in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. NPR's Howard Berkes recently hiked and camped with Childs, who finds beauty in "this cracked ugly place."

See intimate moments with Thundercat, Jorja Smith, the late Mac Miller and other musicians from NPR's Tiny Desk concert series, captured just moments after they performed.