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Ahead of soon-to-be former President Trump's Senate trial, constitutional scholars disagree on whether the Founders intended for a president no longer in office to be tried by the Senate.

Qatar's offer of a luxury jet, which comes on the eve of President's Trump's visit to the Middle East, raises major ethical and legal questions.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather buried his vast porcelain collection to protect it. Hsu went to find it 70 years later, on a trip about more than missing china.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gustavo Arellano, a Los Angeles Times columnist who wrote about convincing his father to get vaccinated.

Adams managed to turn his failure at office work into a gigantic success — a syndicated comic strip about a hapless, cubicle-bound engineer. In his new book, How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big, Adams offers some sage advice such as: "Goals are for losers."

The man authorities say was the shooter, Ian David Long, 28, is also dead. A 29-year veteran of law enforcement, Sgt. Ron Helus, was among the victims at the Borderline Bar & Grill.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with book writers — Laura Miller of Salon.com, and blogger Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation — about worthy books that got overlooked by the mainstream book-review sections in 2007. Here's a rundown of their recommendations.

The author says he knows his readers think of him as cozy and genteel. So he's decided to shake them up a bit with a new book of two short stories.

Growing up in Baltimore, the writer faced threats from both the streets and the police. His book, Between the World and Me, is an open letter to his teenage son. Originally broadcast July 13, 2015.

As Brazil's president down plays the coronavirus threat — despite a sharp uptick in death — he's facing a political crisis. It is affecting the government's handling of the pandemic.

Climate change is having a big impact on Chile's wine industry. Growers are being forced to change the way they position their grapes, face historic wildfires and battle a plague of hungry rabbits.

Houma, Louisiana is struggling to recover after Hurricane Ida hit the area almost a week ago. Most residents are worried because their community doesn't get the same attention that New Orleans does.

Federal authorities say the shooting at an ICE detention facility was "targeted violence." And, the White House threatens layoffs if the government shuts down.

Duvall has starred in epic movies and intimate dramas. In 1996, he reflected on playing the Corleone family lawyer in The Godfather films, and about delivering the most famous line in Apocalypse Now.

The resignation came after shareholder's rejected an $8 million pay package for Andrew Moss. Aviva is the fourth major British company in recent weeks to have executive pay rejected by shareholders.

There are lots of problems in the carbon offset market right now. So if you get an offer to buy an offset, what should you do? NPR asked experts for top things to know.

Jeffrey Gettleman of the N.Y. Times says the air has been filled with smoke from crematories. Meanwhile, the health care system is collapsing and the black market for oxygen and medicine is thriving.

The Trump administration has sent bombers to the Middle East to counter what it says are Iranian threats. Key to the campaign is National Security Advisor John Bolton, who's focused on Iran decades.

The Obama administration's strategy for combating the Islamic State relies on ground forces provided by Iraq and Syria because the White House says it will not send U.S. combat troops. In Iraq, that means trying to win back Sunnis in areas where the group controls territory. Something similar happened during the Iraq war: it was called the Sunni Awakening.

At a White House news conference, the president was asked about Syria, the Boston Marathon bombings, new gun laws, the Guantanamo Bay detention center and other subjects. He made the case that despite some setbacks, he'll still get some important things done in his second term.

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with the Brookings Institution's David Wessel about the week's economic news, including the panic that took over the banking industry after the fall of Silicon Valley Bank.

The latest season of the podcast "Unsettled" from Iowa Public Radio looks at how gender affects people's everyday lives.

Ayesha Rascoe talks to discount store shopper Shannon Carr about inflation and how that's affected her spending habits.

The head of character animation at DreamWorks, Rex Grignon, tells us what he's reading. Grignon worked on Shrek, DreamWorks' first film Antz, and on the new comedy Madagascar. His book choices are usually not job-related.

The grandmother would belt out the song with her grandson in her nursing home.