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The high court heard cases testing whether employers are free to fire employees because they are gay or transgender.

Most of the people Bethanne Blinder fed couldn’t get to the pantry or her home, so she started using her car to deliver her meals to them.

What is President Trump's Board of Peace actually for? NPR's Leila Fadel asks Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and member of The Elders, a group of world leaders who advocate for peace.

Ruth Hasman's home in British Columbia is known as the teddy bear hospital -- a place where stuffies in need of repair receive the TLC they need.

Actor David Duchovny could watch Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather a million times. "If I'm flipping around channels, I'll see it's on and I'll say, 'OK, I'll watch it for a scene or two' and then I can never turn it off," he says.

Former President Jimmy Carter turns 99 today. There were celebrations yesterday at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.

Uninsured patients made up about 25% of the 20,000+ inpatient gunshot hospitalizations in the state from 2018 to 2024, an analysis found. They also had shorter hospital stays than those with any form of coverage.

NPR's Emily Feng talks with Nina Wang, a policy associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology and a co-author of a recent study that exposes the widening dragnet of ICE's surveillance of Americans.

Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia says the county's general fund jumped more than 56%, to nearly $860 million, since 2019. He used the audit to promote the governor's desire to cut property taxes.

There's only a little under two weeks left to get your taxes in before they're due on April 15. And if you’re filing through snail mail, you may want to pop it into your mailbox even earlier than that to make sure it gets counted in time

Hydration infusion spas and mobile services are moving into every corner of the country, becoming a still-growing industry valued at more than $15 billion.

A report on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 has been released in the Netherlands. The report says the plane was shot down by a Russian-built missile, but the question of who fired that missile will be determined by a separate criminal inquiry.

Democrats in Congress are trying to thread a seemingly impossible needle. They say they want to address things like child care, climate change and poverty. But they also need to keep the price down.

In women's individual figure skating, the gold medal favorite — Russia's Kamila Valieva — has been cleared to keep competing despite testing positive for a banned substance before the Olympics.

Nineteen Americans face criminal charges in Egypt over their work for U.S. non-profit organizations. The charges are part of an escalating stand-off between Egyptian officials and the U.S. Washington sends some $1.5 billion in aid to Egypt, and U.S. lawmakers say that's in jeopardy now.

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to move forward with considerations on a proposal for new open Internet rules. What exactly is in the proposal?

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with AP reporter Graham Dunbar about a scandal involving Norwegian ski jumpers who illegally manipulated their suits.

President Trump and Putin are meeting to discuss the end of Russia's war in Ukraine without Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel.

Palestinian citizens of Israel are protesting because what they claim is police neglect has left their communities plagued by violent crime.

The designs for the Pulse Memorial have been updated. The City of Orlando presented an update on the progress of the Memorial design process, which is 60% complete.

A Turkish man describes how he and his wife survived last week's earth quake when their apartment building collapsed around them.

Nearly 44,000 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire in more than a year of war, according to the ministry of health there. A recent Israeli forces operation took place in central Gaza.

Michigan has become the first state in the country to automatically restore voting rights to people as they leave prison.

Hurricane Lala is headed toward Hawaii's Big Island. If it makes landfall there, it'd be the first hurricane to do so since 1871.

The leaders of China and Russia join other world leaders for meetings at the Eurasian summit — dealing with security and trade. Top of the agenda: regional security and Russia's war in Ukraine.