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When more humans participate in a game of tug-o-war, each individual puts in less effort. But the opposite is true in weaver ants, according to new research in the journal Current Biology.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Trump national security adviser John Bolton about the president's upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The TV prequel to the Alien movies calls back to the best elements of those original films — including questions about corporate exploitation and technological advancements.

Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

The president will meet with Putin on Friday in Alaska. A former secret service agent shares how the service plans last minute trips like this, especially one with major geopolitical implications.

A new effort led by Hollywood composer John Frizzell seeks to connect people with autism to each other through bluegrass.

Trump announced the Kennedy Center Honorees on Wednesday. They are Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss, George Strait and Michael Crawford.

Latino voters helped deliver the White House to President Trump in the last election. Many of them already say they won't vote for Republicans next year, but they aren't yet turning to Democrats.

The Boston Public Library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard University and OpenAI to increase public access to hundreds of thousands of historically significant documents.

With Israel's prime minister pushing for a full occupation of Gaza, some of Israel's exhausted soldiers are pushing back and calling for an end to the war.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Amanda Anisimova beat Naomi Osaka in the U.S. Open semifinals early Friday in a tense, three-set match. Both players have been climbing up the rankings after taking mental health breaks from the sport.

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times the city has been under tighter federal control.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.

Joint Task Force Alpha was created in 2021 under the Biden administration to combat human trafficking and smuggling networks from Central and South America into the U.S. Now, the force is expanding.

The FDA approved the 2025-26 vaccines for ages 65 and older and any person 6 months and older who has at least one underlying health condition that increases their risk of severe COVID infection.

A team led by University of Pennsylvania scientists take a close look at A. flavus for possible cancer-killing compounds.

European leaders held a high-stakes meeting Wednesday with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO's chief ahead of Friday's U.S.-Russia summit.

The journalist Carmen Gonzalez died Saturday at 24. She worked for the Boyle Heights Beat, among other publications, and hosted podcasts, mentored student journalists, and appeared in reports on NPR.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. Catherine Crosland, who works directly with people experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C., following President Trump's law enforcement actions in the capital.

Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

Your input will help shape a new NPR series on renting, homeownership and everything that comes with it.

RFK Jr. grilled on vaccines during Senate hearing, European coalition announces plan for security guarantees in Ukraine once war ends, D.C.'s attorney general sues to end National Guard deployment.