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Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel, finishing faster than any of the five men who had done it before. Young Woman and the Sea shows how Ederle's fame grew, then evaporated.

Asian fantasy novels have been growing in popularity over the past few years but is that really the right term for this subgenre? (Story originally aired on All Things Considered on May 30, 2021.)

Belgium has spent 16 months struggling to form a federal government. Observers say that issue is a microcosm of the financial crisis that has hit the eurozone.

A year after the shooting at a Nashville private school, more money for security has been the only response from state lawmakers.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about federal aid to address the coronavirus' economic impact. The Senate is working on another measure that could total $1 trillion.

Through 16 turbulent and celebrated years leading the pop-punk band Paramore, Williams insisted she'd never make a solo album. Then life showed her that she was a different person than she'd known.

Eliska and Welmon Barriere are among the roughly 6 million blacks who migrated north during the 20th century. They left New Orleans in 1962 for Milwaukee, where they raised a family. But they moved to Georgia in the 1990s, part of a trend of blacks going back to the South.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library. about childlessness in politics.

U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has asked the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily reinstate six federal employees fired from their jobs and is considering ways to seek relief for others.

Following the meetings with Trump and Zelenskyy at the White House, European leaders have been urgently trying to figure out what they need to do next to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

President Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today at the White House. And, more National Guard troops head to Washington, D.C. for the president's crime crackdown.

Electric vehicles and solar power are growing quickly and offering hope the world could still meet climate change goals.

On Friday, March 13, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stood in the White House Rose Garden to declare COVID-19 a national emergency....

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death at 71 has shocked Washington. Once a fierce critic of then-candidate Donald Trump, he became one of the president's most consistent defenders.

Florida leads the nation in strict building codes, and the decades of hard work have paid off in the increasing number of homes and buildings that survive each time a hurricane slashes the state. But a new report suggests that all those hard-won gains have been undermined by the explosion of growth along the coast.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author Johanna Copeland about her new book, Our Kind of Game, which takes place among the moms of a fancy suburb in Virginia.

FTX's lawyers allege Sam Bankman-Fried's mom and dad helped shape their son's crypto empire and received millions of dollars worth of gifts and benefits from the now-bankrupt company.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jeff Reitz, who recently set a Guinness World Record for going to Disneyland for 2,995 consecutive days. That's eight years, three months and 13 days.

Billy McFarland says he will sell the brand "to an operator that can fully realize its vision." The news comes days after the postponement of Fyre Festival 2, which was scheduled for late May.

George Zimmerman's verdict is in, but public opinion continues to play out. Some prayed or protested, while others felt justice had been served by Zimmerman's acquittal in the fatal shooting of black teen Trayvon Martin.

David Greene talks to Anita Dunn, White House communications director during President Obama's first term, about Trump's strategy, and ability to control the messaging on policy agenda.

Highline walkers set a new record by stepping more than half a mile across a gaping void in Yosemite National Park, balanced on a strip of nylon webbing.

Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have a key change, but it's getting harder and harder to find in top hits.

Neil Gaiman's new novel, The Graveyard Book, is the story of an orphan toddler adopted by dead people. Inspiration for the book came 23 years ago, says Gaiman, when he was watching his son ride a tricycle through a cemetery.