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Students at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon are trying to bring more attention to one of the world's smaller and often overlooked plants with this year's seventh annual Moss Appreciation Week. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on February 14, 2025.)

For eligible homebuyers, the Hometown Heroes program can offer up to $25,000 in down-payment and closing-cost assistance.

Staff from NPR Music highlight the sleeper hits that got lost in the deluge of new music in 2021.

The U.S. Justice Department says it's taking strong action against a Venezuelan gang in Colorado. Its package of indictments tells another story.

After emergency gallbladder surgery, a Tennessee woman said she spent months without a permanent mailing address and never got a bill from the hospital. She ended up in court a few years later.

In recent weeks, Whelan has complained of worsening safety in his prison and questioned why the Biden administration has still not brought him home.

The Derek Chauvin trial is not technically about race. Yet attorneys have spent most of their time questioning potential jurors about their views on it. One Black juror's questioning illuminates why.

With Kamila Valieva seizing the top spot, 25 skaters advance to the next segment. Normally, only the top 24 move on from the short program. But these Games aren't normal.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the attorney for George Floyd's family, Benjamin Crump, one year after Floyd was killed by police.

How do you put on TV productions built around spectacles that are not taking place in person, and are unlikely to be spectacular? We examine NBC New's approach to covering virtual conventions.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Republican strategist Mike Madrid about his book -- Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy -- about the power of the Latino vote.

Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans, a major player in Florida’s Medicaid market, announced a $2.5 billion deal Tuesday that includes buying managed-care...

UCLA secured the first NCAA women's basketball national championship in school history — a goal that was set after losing in the first Final Four last season.

Six years ago, the mystery writer sent Easy Rawlins off a cliff, seemingly killing him. Now, Easy's back on the streets his creator once called home. Mosley says other than Los Angeles, he and his detective hero don't have much in common, but NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates begs to differ.

People with disabilities, people who can't afford it and people who don't want to abandon their pets are among the many who can't easily get up and leave before a hurricane.

Monday night, President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold a virtual summit. It will be their first formal meeting since Biden became president.

The company that operates six South Florida hospitals has agreed to a $5.5 million settlement with the federal government over patient information that...

From Taiwan to fentanyl, President Biden and China's leader Xi Jinping have plenty to sort through when the two meet face-to-face for the first time in a year.

The Biden administration is considering a plan to send several thousand additional U.S. troops into NATO countries in eastern Europe, near both Russia and Ukraine.

Livestreamers who bait scammers find creative ways to waste their time. This makes for entertaining viewing. But as scams spike, one streamer, Kitboga, wants to protect as many victims as possible.

Musicians Kristin Hersh and Vic Chesnutt were friends and tour buddies for years before his death from an overdose in 2009; Don't Suck is Hersh's haunting memoir of her lost friend and his pain.

On May 14, 2022, a white supremacist attacked the Jefferson Street Tops supermarket in East Buffalo, a predominantly Black neighborhood, killing 10 people and injuring three.

The grant, thought to be the largest-ever from a philanthropic institution for poetry, will enable the academy to fund its Poets Laureate Fellowship program for the next three years.

Besides their legions of fans, the artists entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year — KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and others — have inspired scores of imitators.