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Australia's Conservative government rejects efforts to tackle climate change. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former fire commissioner Greg Mullins about the public's anger as parts of Australia burn.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Chris Smith, director of the Netflix documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal.

Around the newsroom and around the world, here's what we're reading this week.

President Trump promises he has a "phenomenal" health plan if the ACA is overturned in court. Here's a glimpse, according to analysts and his advisers, of what might be included in a GOP health plan.

The Obama-era program will expire in six months, the administration said on Tuesday. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals granted legal protections to roughly 800,000 people.

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

Stories of chronic pain, drug-hopping, and insurance meddling are all too common among patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Precision medicine offers new hope.

American Muslim author Haroon Moghul was bound and determined to go to his high school prom — and he wrote about it for the new essay collection, Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex and Intimacy. Moghul tells NPR's Rachel Martin that he thought the experience might help him understand himself better.

Corey Harvard, an LGBTQ activist, grew up in a deeply religious family in the 1990s. He talks with his mother about coming to terms with his sexuality as a teenager in Alabama.

The Visit Florida board on Tuesday agreed to pay $73,000 to the agency's ousted CEO and appointed state Department of Business and Professional Regulation…

A graphic series of anti-meth advertisements has hit the airways in Montana. The ads are designed to grab the attention of kids and inform them about the dangers of methamphetamine. Thomas M. Siebel, chairman of the Montana Meth Project, talks with Melissa Block about the campaign.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the upcoming gold medal matches for the U.S. men's and women's basketball teams and a wrap-up of the Olympic games in Paris.

We learn two things from a recent study by NerdWallet.com:Tampa is the sixth-best U.S. city for starting a business.There's a NerdWallet.com.The price…

On this Super Bowl weekend, we ask: What makes a great football movie?

Donald Trump isn't just a former president. He is also currently seeking the Republican nomination for the third time in 2024. That means he has to take his criminal charges out on the campaign trail.

As the RNC nears, conservative thinkers are pondering how the president has changed the Republican party.

Congressman Ro Khanna is one of the few Democrats who have made it a priority to appear on the YouTube podcast circuit. He talks about his approach to new media, and what he gets out of going on comedy shows that he doesn't out of cable news.

Doctors say more of their patients are seeking permanent sterilization procedures, but some patients are reporting that doctors are unwilling to operate on people of childbearing age.

NPR has been given exclusive access to nearly a dozen people involved with Operation Glowing Symphony, a classified military operation that launched a cyber attack against ISIS.

Novak Djokovic won his first Wimbledon championship in three years beating Roger Federer. Petra Kvitova won the women's singles final. Steve Inskeep talks to Jon Wertheim of Sport's Illustrated.

The fifth and final season of the HBO Max series Hacks is nominated for 24 Emmys, including one for Smart as best actress in a comedy series. The writers "raised the bar every single season," Smart says.

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

Terry McMillan, the best-selling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, tells NPR's Scott Simon that she writes because she wishes she were a magician. She shows off her tricks in Who Asked You?, a novel with many narrators — including a woman named BJ and her husband, children and grandkids.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Christina Applegate tells Rachel Martin about a period in her life she daydreams about.

A judge says a sheriff's son can't use Florida's "stand your ground" law to avoid prosecution for an aggravated battery charge.