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One of the world's oldest and most famous newspapers is changing hands. The Financial Times, based in London, will be sold to Nikkei Inc. of Japan for $1.3 billion dollars.

For Jimmie Allen, what makes a country artist isn't how many fiddles and mandolins they have in a song. It's something more natural than that.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was the one who received the emergency application brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group.

UNICEF says one child is injured or killed in Gaza every 10 minutes. This is the story of a 12-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces while he was trying to get food aid.

Swedish actor and playwright Jonas Karlsson ventures into fiction with The Room, a surreal tale of a dour bureaucrat who finds a tiny secret room at his workplace, a room which may or may not be real.

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, whose new novel explores the bonds of sisterhood and the ways those bonds can be tested.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to sprinter Allyson Felix, an Olympic champion, about her contract with Nike through pregnancy.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Tami Overby, former president of the U.S.-Korea Business Council at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about the ICE raid at a Georgia plant.

Neko Case has released her first solo album of the decade. It's also the first she's produced entirely herself, and speaks to her wide musical range.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, who says what former President Richard Nixon did is child's play compared to what former President Donald Trump did.

Some holiday traditions are beloved, while others are considered annoying, infuriating and problematic. Listeners share their most hated traditions from mistletoe to Elf on the Shelf.

President Bush has chosen Wall Street veteran Henry M. Paulson Jr. to be his third treasury secretary. If confirmed, he would succeed John Snow. The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel tells Steve Inskeep that the Goldman Sachs CEO can make a difference at Treasury by taming the federal budget process and the tending to the value of the dollar.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Pablo Maurer of The Athletic about the possibility of soccer star Lionel Messi leaving his longtime club Barcelona.

People across Europe have been gathering to protest the killing of George Floyd and denounce police brutality in the U.S. Artist Eme Freethinker has painted Floyd's portrait on the Berlin Wall.

Scott Simon discusses the NBA playoffs, Brittney Griner's continued detention in Russia, and Shohei Ohtani's awe-inspiring performance at Fenway Park, with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media.

Nick Fountain, co-host of NPR's podcast Planet Money, reports on the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

President-elect Obama is reported to have picked Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to serve as his education secretary. Duncan, who has run Chicago schools for seven years, is known for his efforts to reform urban public education. An announcement is expected Tuesday.

Some Black churches are adjusting their services to accommodate people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease as older Black Americans are twice more likely to have them than white Americans.

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

European and Russian space officials meet next week to discuss how to pay for Russian flights carrying critical supplies to the International Space Station. With NASA's shuttle fleet grounded, Russia now bears a greater role in keeping the station afloat. NPR's Eric Niiler reports on the imperfect international partnership now playing a crucial role in the space station's survival.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Meg Linehan, who covers women's soccer and is a senior writer with The Athletic, about the World Cup madness.

Environmental journalist Amanda Little says the sustainable food revolution will include meat cultured in a lab, 3-D printer food, aquaculture and indoor vertical farming.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., about the ongoing talks over President Biden's domestic spending plan.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and Anastasia Tsioulcas tell us what it was like to cover a major celebrity criminal trial, for this week's Reporter's Notebook. Covering the spectacle and complexity of the Sean Combs trial required both modern and old-school reporting techniques.

Alvin Carter has been driving a school bus in Skokie, Ill., for 28 years. He has become a reliable source of joy for his community and the kids he drives.