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China is holding its annual "two sessions", which will reshuffle leaders in top government jobs at a time of big challenges.

Roland Reisley is the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the Usonian home designed by the famed architect. Even after 73 years, he told NPR, he still marvels at the beauty of the home.

Biden is active and healthy for his age, as his physical demonstrated. If he runs for reelection and wins, he'd be 86 years old at the end of the next term. Many voters say his age is still a concern.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Nicholas Proia, Northeastern Ohio Medical University's clinical professor of internal medicine, about the health of locals after the East Palestine train derailment.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about Caitlin Clark's last Iowa basketball game, a college basketball tradition causing player injuries, and the NFL scouting combine.

In a Jeopardy-style game at the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, hackers tried to get chatbots from OpenAI, Google and Meta to create misinformation and share harmful content.

Schoolhouse Rock used catchy tunes and videos to teach math, grammar and history. We listen to archival interviews with music director Bob Dorough, songwriter Dave Frishberg and singer Jack Sheldon.

Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog's new film on the earliest known cave paintings.

In North Carolina, key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, now part of Camp Lejeune, were used by the first Black Marines.

Tom Schnabel is in love with the work of choral composer Eric Whitacre. For a modern composer, Whitacre's choral music is surprisingly popular amongst those that perform choral music; it is rich and challenging. His recent CD is Cloudburst.

Out today is a new video game within the Pac-Man universe. It's called Shadow Labyrinth. It's very different than the pellet chomping arcade game that once dominated arcades.

The ICE facility in Dallas where three detainees were killed in a shooting on Wednesday is still closed, but many people with scheduled check-ins still showed up the next day, only to be turned away.

Former President Donald Trump has been charged with criminal counts in four separate cases — all as he's running for president again. Here's the status of each one.

The World Economic Forum is underway in Davos, Switzerland. This annual meeting is where the world's rich and powerful talk about global economic issues. Topping the agenda is Europe's debt troubles. Renee Montagne talks to Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist about the eurozone crisis, which some European leaders in recent days have declared "over."

In Civil Rights Queen, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin profiles Motley, a Black woman who wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King's legal team.

Following the U.S. operation in Venezuela, AI content has proliferated.

The five remaining Republican candidates are aiming to gain an edge with Nevada voters before Tuesday's caucuses. But the issues important to conservatives vary.

It is currently unknown how many people remain stranded on the islands in the wake of the near-Category 5 Hurricane Ian.

When it comes to curiosity, science writer Mary Roach describes herself as someone who is "very out there." Her new book, Grunt, looks at some scientific developments that help keep soldiers safe.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shannon Bond of NPR, Jeff Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal and Elizabeth Dwoskin of The Washington Post about a trove of internal Facebook documents.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with former U.S. District Chief Judge Gerald Rosen about his book Grand Bargain: The Inside Story of Detroit's Dramatic Journey from Bankruptcy to Rebirth.

A park ranger learned that a group with cooking pots was hiking toward Yellowstone National Park's Shoshone Geyser Basin. The ranger found two whole chickens in a burlap sack.

With less than a month before the tax filing deadline, the IRS says tax season is going smoothly. The agency is investing billions of dollars to improve service and beef up tax enforcement.

The law that went into effect in 2014 allows undocumented immigrant students to avoid higher out-of-state tuition rates if they meet certain criteria. Albritton suggested putting a “sunset” on it.