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The soundtrack to Disney's Frozen has been the biggest-selling album of 2014, topping the Billboard album chart for 13 weeks.

Rep. Dean Phillip's campaign against President Biden is unwelcome by many fellow Democrats, but it reflects growing concern in his party that the president's reelection effort is in trouble.

Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have sent families crowding into ERs, as health systems struggle with staff shortages. In Michigan, only 9 out of more than 130 hospitals have a pediatric ICU.

On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain: Rasha remembers the nurse who treated her ailing mom with uncommon kindness.

OSHA, the small, chronically understaffed federal agency in charge of workplace safety, now faces a big challenge: enforcing a federal vaccine rule covering 80 million workers.

Young YouTube stars work hard to look authentic and accessible, and they can make millions of dollars doing it. But the pressure to appear perfect while living online can sometimes be too much.

In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari packs the history of humanity into 400 pages. "In some areas we've done amazingly well," the historian says. "In other areas we've done amazingly bad."

Hundreds of acres of wildfires have burned on Maui, driven by winds that were increased by Hurricane Dora. The fires have caused power outages, evacuations, road closures and destroyed buildings.

Depending on whom you ask, Go Set a Watchman is either a recently discovered first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird — or a failed sequel. Either way, critic Maureen Corrigan calls it "kind of a mess."

Iowa will be holding the Republican presidential caucuses on Jan. 15. Voters there will play a key role in setting the tone for the presidential election year.

Helen Schulman tells the story of a New York family's fall from grace in This Beautiful Life. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the novel is a parent's nightmare — a cautionary tale about what happens when hormones meet the Internet.

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy has taken U.S. readers by storm. Not since the arrival of Ikea on these shores has Sweden made such an inroad into the American home and imagination. But critic Maureen Corrigan says the impressive "Ice Age" of Nordic mystery writing is well under way.

A better-than-expected jobs report may have lawmakers feeling less urgency about the need for another round of the pandemic relief. But economists say it is too soon to pull the plug on federal help.

First, an assessment. Then rescues. Then food and supplies. That's the battle plan for the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, according to David Paulison, acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

NPR's Kelsey Snell takes a tour of the Capitol Building, which is open again for public tours after being closed for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Trump administration's decision to leave the World Health Organization could have serious consequences for the implementation of global vaccine programs.

The U.S. has pulled back funding for global vaccinations. Some countries — like Brazil — don't need the help. Vaccination rates remain low in other countries such as Iraq due to issues of mistrust.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that at the heart of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians is insistence on ruling the tiny, one-mile-square old city of Jerusalem, a site sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Since its conquest of the city in the 1967 war, Israel has ruled the old city insisting that it must remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel. Palestinians are demanding sovereignty over, at least, the areas of old Jerusalem where Arabs are a majority.

Este año, los legisladores federales aprobaron cambios en los requisitos laborales para el SNAP (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria, por sus siglas en inglés) como parte de la ley conocida como Big, Beautiful Bill Act.

Three former Memphis police officers will face trial on federal civil rights and conspiracy charges for the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols in January 2023.

Among the topics that came up: her stance on an electronic surveillance program, her push to drop charges against Edward Snowden and her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

At least 78 people are dead following flooding that slammed central Texas over the weekend, while a desperate search for 11 missing from a camp for girls continues.

NPR's A Martinez talks to retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts about his friend British businessman Hamish Harding, who is on board the submersible missing since Sunday's trip to view the Titanic.

How should the world interpret Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent allusions to the Hebrew Bible, when discussing his country's war on Hamas?

Lena and Joe Crandell, church volunteers who live outside of Tucson, Ariz., talk about what's been keeping them up at night, and why their concerns will translate into votes for President Trump.