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Kenya’s president is in China, where he’s negotiated more infrastructure loans. Back home there’s growing anger about Kenya's growing foreign debt of more than $80 billion, much of it owed to China.

The United Kingdom’s competition watchdog is investigating whether Ticketmaster treated customers unfairly when selling tickets to the upcoming Oasis reunion tour.

Rick Scott became wealthy as a lawyer and health care industry executive before entering politics. Now running for reelection, he lamented that his brother had a “tough life” and says it all began with marijuana.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with freelance reporter Melanie Eversley, who covered Capitol Hill for years. Eversley remembers Sen. McCain for the warmth and respect he showed the press.

In the next chapter of the sci-fi Netflix series, out Friday, the show's central children begin to grow up. Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer discuss their instant cult classic.

Doctors and others working on the country's opioid epidemic are welcoming President Trump's declaration of a public health emergency, but they say it's not enough.

While the Nazis may have used the children's opera Brundibár as a propaganda tool, it also was a symbol of hope for the children who performed it. It is now a way to remember profound loss.

With electronic shelf labels, prices can change up to six times a minute. Grocers including Walmart, Whole Foods and Schnucks are adopting them.

As lawmakers work to negotiate a government spending bill, the financial industry is lobbying against a rule being crafted by the Labor Department aimed at protecting workers with retirement accounts.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jackie Faherty, an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, about why summer solstice came so early this year and what it signifies.

Genetic testing will help Florida ranchers select and breed cattle that better tolerate the heat.

There was a second night of protests in Charlotte, following Tuesday's shooting death of Keith Scott, a 43 year-old African-American man, by a Charlotte police officer.

Journalist Maria Ressa has been released on bail after she was arrested on Wednesday on charges of "cyber libel." Her arrest came amid fears of a broader crackdown on the press in the Philippines.

The Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill that would allow local law enforcement to arrest undocumented immigrants — joining other states attempting to take on what's been a federal role.

While Sunday's incident happened amid simmering tensions between the two Koreas, observers say it won't likely develop into another source of animosity.

After years of lobbying by vulnerable island nations, the U.N. asked the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion, a non-binding but important basis for international obligations.

Divers are getting excited about the planned sinking of the SS United States. The once glorious luxury ocean liner is slated to become an artificial reef.

2024 was the year of the aurora borealis. Will the display grace the sky once again at the start of the new year?

The virus has infected over 7,000 people, mainly in the southern Chinese manufacturing hub of Foshan. An expert says the outbreak appears to be the largest ever documented in China.

Russia promised a response to President Joe Biden's decision to let Ukraine strike targets on Russian soil with U.S.-made missiles.

Melissa Block talks with Don Gonyea as polls close in Ohio.

Jamie McDonald has provided meals in Ukraine and Turkey as a volunteer with World Central Kitchen. Now, he's partnering with the global charity led by José Andrés to feed residents in Asheville.

Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona approach the question of military strikes on Syria from opposite wings of the Republican Party. Paul from the isolationist wing and McCain from the traditional, more hawkish wing. Their disagreement played out in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, and serves as a preview for the far more consequential version of this debate among House Republicans.

Nearly two-thirds of Major League Baseball teams have had some form of mascot race. It all began with the Milwaukee Brewers' Racing Sausages in the early 1990s.

NPR's Brian Mann slipped away from his desk during a hectic week for an early morning canoe paddle on a wild river in Vermont.