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NPR's electoral map organizes states into seven categories – Toss Up, Lean Republican, Lean Democratic, Likely Republican, Likely Democratic, Safe Republican and Safe Democratic.

Siblings — especially twins — sometimes share the strangest traits, like throwing a ball with their head or picking up keys and crayons with their toes. Researchers want to know what's up with that.

How did the soda giant from America come to be seen as "local" in Africa? And what has the impact been on the continent for worse and for better?

The president called surprise legislative elections, in two rounds on Sunday and July 7, and they're shaping up to be among the country's most divisive in recent history.

NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home.

Musician and film star Kris Kristofferson has died at age 88. His hit songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" and he starred in dozens of films, including A Star Is Born, opposite Barbra Streisand.

The latest on the deadly attack at a concert in Manchester, England. Also, new developments in the FBI and congressional probes into Russian meddling and the Trump budget for 2018 is revealed.

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes — including rebranding the social media platform as "X." Authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac recount the takeover in Character Limit.

The latest safety lapse at Boeing renews concerns about the company's influence in Washington and whether federal regulators have delegated too much of their oversight authority to its employees.

President Biden to meet with China's president. GOP rifts boil over in exchange between two representatives. Israel's operations in Gaza may have led to some internal riffs at the State Department.

An Oklahoma country station made news this week when it briefly refused to play a Beyoncé song. It's a resonant tale for the Black and women musicians who have tried to crack the format for decades.

Ukraine is looking to reform its conscription policies to help bolster troop numbers after nearly two years of war, fueling fears among some civilians who don't want to fight.

NPR's Andrew Limbong interviews Hannah Ritchie, author of the book, Not the End of the World, about how we can address climate change and create a sustainable world.

The special counsel, Robert Hur, found that President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents but didn’t pursue criminal charges, saying the evidence did not establish Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that Biden would be sympathetic to a jury.

Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.

Morning Edition host A Martínez asks writer/director James Gunn, the man behind the reimagining of the entire DC Comics universe for the screen, about his vision for Superman.

Owner of this business says she’s on a mission to show the richness and diversity of Latin American food, one empanada at a time

We created a mini travel guide to Gaza City's historical and cultural landmarks five years ago. Every site we visited is now destroyed, badly damaged, or inaccessible.

Keith Padgett paints the winding rivers, waterside forests and old-timey shrimp boats of Florida’s rural Gulf Coast. Yet, like many other artists who paint landscapes of nature in Florida, he fears the myriad of threats chipping away at the very subject of his work.

NPR spoke with 30 small groups of people around the country about what they'd want other people to understand about their community — and what they want to understand about others

The NFL is reaching more Latinos than ever. Here's how they've scored with a Spanish-speaking audience.

Rather than lowering the price, some universities use online courses to subsidize everything else.

In his visit on Thursday, the prime minister will try to leverage the U.K.'s so-called "special relationship" with U.S. and act as a bridge between the Trump administration and U.S. allies in Europe.

The Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" platform has boosted the agenda of a conservative think tank that's been working for more than a decade to reshape the nation's public assistance programs.