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In Colorado, the federal funding freeze has hit projects from a brownfield cleanup in Pueblo to "once in a lifetime" funding for solar projects in Native communities.

Germany plans to ban gas and oil boilers in all new buildings starting next year to reduce its carbon footprint. Homeowners are concerned that the new rules will bankrupt them.

Read recommendations cited by the 9-11 Commission in its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.

Regardless of what courts rule regarding Texas immigration enforcement law SB4, a climate of fear and distrust has permeated among immigrant and mixed-status families in Texas.

University of Florida scientist Tracie Baker, canoed the same extremely remote 130-mile path that explorer Hugh Willoughby traveled 125 years ago — with the goal of comparing water in 2022 with 1897 and assessing the intrusion of modern chemicals into some of the most remote wilderness in America.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with philosopher Eric Boynton about empathy and community grief as the U.S. nears a landmark death toll: one million people dying from COVID-19.

Inflation is chipping away at the value of gifts, putting a squeeze on donors and nonprofits alike.

September's job gains fell short of expectations, with U.S. employers adding just 194,000 jobs. The unemployment rate fell below 5%, but that was in part because people dropped out of the workforce.

Staffing issues have forced universities to tweak dining hall hours. Michigan State University pays top wages, but still only has been able to bring on about half the student workers it needs.

In the wake of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, here's what U.S. polling says about the country's attitude toward guns and gun policy.

The opposition is united against longtime leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who is seeking a third term in this Sunday's election amid the country's gravest economic and political crisis in decades.

Suicide rates among teens and young adults declined in the two years after the launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Two studies show how technology is allowing people to generate speech using only their thoughts. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on August 23, 2023.)

Scientists have been working on technologies that can turn a person's thoughts into spoken words. Two new reports show how far the field has come.

Cancer diagnoses are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean regions, but care lags behind.

Best-selling author Zadie Smith's new book, On Beauty, follows the lives of two mixed-race families in a fictional New England college town. Smith's previous work includes the novel White Teeth.

Nearly half of the Philadelphia-based pianist's recorded work had gone unheard for decades, until now.

So far this year, 44 executions have been carried out in the United States. It's a 15-year high.

For 25 years, the Earth Conservation Corps has been cleaning up the capital's polluted Anacostia River. Volunteers have turned their lives around and now work to help others do the same.

After many Independence Day celebrations were put on hold in 2020 because of rising COVID-19 cases, they are returning.

An estimated 218,000 people in the U.S. are stateless or are at risk of becoming so. As a result of President Trump's aggressive policies, people without any citizenship are more vulnerable than ever.

Writer Cynthia Ozick attended readings at the Y in the 1950s. "You saw these icons standing in a blaze of brilliant spotlight," she says, "and you felt that you were at the crux of all civilization."

Carlos do Carmo helped popularize fado, Portugal's national music, and gave it a political edge when Portugal's dictatorship fell in 1974. This past weekend, he brought fado to New York.

People who lost their family and homes in the surprise incursion into Israel by Hamas reckon with the aftermath.

The 2026 World Cup is being played in New Jersey, but in Queens, New York, home to immigrants from all over the world, soccer is not just a sport. It's a way of life.