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The city's first solar sidewalk, on a downtown street corner, consists of 84 solar panels that are mounted to the sidewalk and store energy that can power the signal for up to three days.

LA has the highest number of homeless veterans in the U.S. For decades, advocates have fought for housing for them. Now, they're hoping a Trump administration executive order will change everything.

You'll read about a Kenyan ice sculptor, the risks to women from food insecurity, a poignant street encounter — and goats locking horns with sheep in a changing climate.

Kilgore, who died Jan. 7, was a talented interpreter of American popular song. We'll remember her by listening back to her in-studio concerts with pianist Dave Frishberg from 1995 and 1999.

These wildly different artists both reach the top of the pop charts this week.

Noel King talks to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont about President Trump threatening to shut down the government shortly before midterm elections if Congress doesn't fund his border wall.

Joe Kahn, the incoming executive editor at The New York Times, is replacing a newspaper legend — while facing challenges to traditional hierarchies from a younger generation of journalists.

The money will go toward the LINE program, which provides scholarships and financial assistance.

60 years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, we hear from one of the men who helped him write it, his friend and attorney Clarence Jones.

The talk in the Barbershop this week is about Black Friday, Black Lives Matter and social "cuffing." Wesley Lowery, national reporter at The Washington Post, Katie Notopoulos, a senior editor at Buzzfeed, and Jozen Cummings, an editorial associate at Twitter, join the conversation.

Most Americans think of prejudice as animosity toward people in other groups. But two psychologists argue that unconscious bias — often in the form of giving some people special treatment — is the way prejudice largely works in America today.

In his new book, journalist Gregory Johnsen charts the rise of Yemen as a haven for al-Qaida and explores the recent history of radical Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. The death of Osama bin Laden, he says, had more of an effect on the U.S. psyche than it did on people in Yemen.

The son of Ukrainian immigrants who started losing his sight at a young age felt like the Broadway hit about perseverance was his personal anthem.

From school choice to college affordability, Trump and Harris don't have a lot in common. Ahead of the candidates’ only scheduled debate, we’ve put together a handy primer of their education views.

The committees conducting the impeachment inquiry released transcripts from two key witnesses: Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine.

In industries ranging from health care to manufacturing to entertainment, workers across the country are willing to strike for better wages and working conditions.

Justin Torres has won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Blackouts.

The stock market plunged more than 1,000 points on Monday, reversing the growth in the markets throughout 2017. Richard Salmen is chair of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about what consumers should be doing.

An individual person's odds of winning the lottery are slim, so an office pool can be a way to improve your odds. But how do you avoid the pitfalls of the office lottery pool?

Pensions are a major sticking point between Boeing and its striking machinists union. Many workers want the company to restore the pension plan they lost a decade ago, but Boeing hasn’t budged.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar about how he's processing the U.S. strikes again Iran through writing.

Former Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark has had a bumpy start to her WNBA career. NPR's A Martinez talks to Ben Pickman of The Athletic.

For more than 60 years, this maestro of magic has collaborated with towering figures. Now on a new record, he turns to family.

Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor and Noah Wyle each took home acting awards at the Golden Globes Sunday night. Here's a look at the night's other big winners.

The volcanologist on the island of Vanuatu who walks barefoot over cooled lava fields tells NPR's Don Gonyea how to see nature at its most primeval.