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It was another action-packed week, with the Academy Awards, Mardi Gras and the president's address to Congress. Did you pay attention?

If you've been paying attention to international politics, you'll get at least three — yes, THREE! — questions right this week!

With a new album coming on the way, Melbourne-based Alpine is building buzz in the U.S. — including this past week at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

Journalist Stuart Maconie says Margaret Thatcher and her reforms inspired a wealth of music in the U.K. — the tone of which could be glowing or grim, depending on what part of the country the musicians were from.

Studies show too much noise, particularly loud, irregular noise, can hurt a child's brain development, because if sound is irregular, it distracts our brains and makes concentration more difficult.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Kathy Kraninger says the department is getting in the way of efforts to police the student loan industry. The revelation comes in a letter obtained by NPR.

Taylor Fritz surged with a six-game run against a fading Frances Tiafoe, also of the U.S., to come out on top 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 and reach his first Grand Slam final.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary set out recently to document some of these words on Twitter, and was flooded with responses from people offering their own.

Lauryn Valladarez was five months pregnant and watching her fiancé start to struggle in the ocean. That's when she started to panic.

The American baritone remembers one of his mentors and role models, and recommends several of his favorite recordings.

Craig Brown's new biography of Queen Elizabeth's glamorous and scandalous younger sister documents "a life which sort of went off the rails," he says.

As other states get in the game, leaders in Virginia are facing the growing pains of hosting the biggest cluster of data center capacity in the world.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Alison Sider. The Department of Transportation has fined JetBlue for "chronically delayed" flight performance.

In several recent statements, former President Donald Trump appears to be backpedaling on his opposition to abortion. Those comments are raising concerns among opponents of abortion rights.

The Taliban of today has a sophisticated social media presence. It has harnessed online platforms as a tool of propaganda and is now using it as a way to govern.

Rick Moody discusses his new novel, which is told solely in the form of online hotel reviews. The narrator of Hotels Of North America is increasingly down on his luck — and may even be homeless.

Chang-Rae Lee is an award-winning author best known for his novels Native Speaker and The Surrendered. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Lee about his latest book On Such a Full Sea, a futuristic dystopian novel set in a declining America that's been repopulated by Chinese immigrant workers.

Commentator Sarah Ventre says that the biggest problem with last week's Emmy Awards wasn't how lacking they were in cultural diversity, but how little she saw that problem discussed.

A Southern California project is transforming steel shipping containers into apartments for homeless veterans. They're inexpensive, durable, and...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy appeared before a Senate panel Friday. He faced questions on his plans to transform the U.S. Postal Service and how they will affect mail-in voting.

Democrats and Republicans generally agree that Congress needs to approve an aid package quickly. But it's proven harder than expected for everyone to agree on what should be in that aid package.

Bread lines have become a feature of the new Syria, posing a critical challenge to the country's rebel rulers who ousted President Bashar al-Assad last month.

Congressional leaders are working to pass $24 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, but rising opposition on the right is complicating its passage.

Frito-Lay workers are voting on an agreement that could end the strike. It would boost wages, guarantee a weekly day off and end "suicide shifts" — consecutive 12-hour shifts with eight hours between.

NPR's Audie Cornish chats with civil engineering expert David Prevatt about how to prepare buildings for tornadoes following a series of deadly storms.