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Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving, resolving the criminal case stemming from his arrest in the Hamptons. “I did not live up to the standards that I try to hold for myself," he said.

California suffered devastating wildfires in 2018. But cities and counties are still allowing subdivisions to stretch out into the suburban edges with the highest risks of wildfire.

President Trump, who tested positive for the coronavirus, was given a Regeneron infusion as "a precautionary measure," White House physician Sean Conley said in a memo on Friday.

In Lebanon, victims were buried after a cyberattack Tuesday that detonated thousands of hand-held pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah. The next day there was a second wave of attacks.

China is to gradually raise the retirement age for its workforce next year. The news is met with mixed reaction in the Chinese capital. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 16, 2024.)

The planet called KELT-9b is around three times more massive than Jupiter. It orbits a blue star about 650 light-years away from Earth that's nearly twice as hot as our own sun.

Cahree Myrick has taken the division win at the U.S. Chess Federation SuperNationals. He is the first national youth chess champion from Baltimore, and he talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the win.

Comedian Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial began Monday morning in a suburban Philadelphia courtroom. Lawyers on both sides used opening statements to raise questions about both Cosby and accuser Andrea Constand.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Anton La Guardia, Deputy Foreign Editor of The Economist, about how what's happening in Catalonia may affect the European Union.

On Tuesday, rapper Eminem attacked President Trump in a four minute freestyle. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to NPR's hip-hop writer Rodney Carmichael about the significance of Eminem's anti-trump rap.

David Greene talks to Dee Margo, mayor of El Paso, Texas, who met with Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan on Wednesday during a visit to the border.

The Equifax CEO resigned earlier this week, and now the interim CEO says consumers will be able to lock and unlock access to their Equifax credit files free of charge for life. While that will provide some protection, there are still ways to exploit the stolen data and harm consumers.

There's above average wildfire potential for the rest of the summer for vast swaths of the American West.

Republicans adopted a new platform at their party’s convention in Milwaukee. One of the most-watched sections has been the language around abortion rights.

A new lawsuit filed by record labels Universal, Sony and Warner says their catalogs have been ripped off by two AI music generators. But there’s a twist: It’s not clear the courts are on their side.

It’s not a bird or a plane -- it’s the "Man of Steel." Filming is underway in Cleveland for a new Superman movie to be released in the summer of 2025.

The flights, which drew national attention, took the migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, with a brief stop in the Northwest Florida community of Crestview. The lawsuit alleges that migrants were “duped” into participating in the flights and thought they were going to a city in the Northeast U.S.

The Crimson Tide were locked in a struggle with the Bulls most of the way before scoring 28 points in the final 10 minutes.

President Biden has been talking about a ceasefire deal for Gaza all summer long. It's an important but elusive goal for his legacy, and for Vice President Harris' campaign, too.

Farm programs will likely cost the government less under any new farm bill, but the policy could be bad for the environment. Both House and Senate versions would end a big subsidy, called direct payments, that has paid money to land owners — whether they needed it or not — if they complied with certain conservation regulations. The two chambers' versions of the bill differ on how, or even if, to incent farmers to take care of their land. But both versions would stop funding to keep at least five million acres of land out of production.

There are thousands of Chinese-made surveillance cameras in government buildings across the United States. Congress is banning them Aug. 13, but it's unclear how that will be carried out.

The first Mascot Hall of Fame opened recently in Whiting, Indiana. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dave Raymond, the founder and a former mascot himself.

Puerto Rico has its third governor in the space of a week after Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez was sworn in Wednesday.

Oklahoma City police officers can now carry assault rifles when they're on the job. It's made critics concerned about further loss of trust.

In Afghanistan, a car bomb at a U.S. airbase near the city of Jalalabad exploded, killing 9 people on Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. It follows deadly protests over what were said to be accidental burnings of the Quran.