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John Matze was ousted as the social media company struggles to find a way back online, with Big Tech companies cracking down on the site after the riot at the Capitol.

Fox News has struck a deal averting a trial in the blockbuster defamation suit filed by the election-tech company Dominion Voting Systems over spurious claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a portion of a controversial Florida law that called on local police to cross state lines to assist federal...

On Wednesday, the parties involved in the pop icon's conservatorship head back to court for the first time since Britney Spears spoke to the judge last month. Here's who the main players are.

Climate scientists have been issuing dire warnings about rising sea levels. The U.S. military has been taking measures to safeguard its facilities.

How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used ferocious lobbying and implicit government backing to grow rich and powerful.

Pixar's Inside Out was praised for helping kids understand how emotions affect their actions. Adults learned a few things too. The sequel's new characters include Anxiety, Embarrassment and Ennui.

The Biden administration is facing a fast-changing situation in Afghanistan where Taliban forces are said to have enricled the capital, Kabul.

Close to 16 percent of Americans now live at or below the poverty line. On top of that, 100 million of us — 1 out of 3 Americans — manage to survive on a household income barely twice that amount. How is this poverty crisis happening?

PBS remixes another of its iconic shows, and this time, it's all about books.

Once a biology student, Andrea Barrett now weaves science through her fiction. In The Air We Breathe, Barrett writes about poor immigrants at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Adirondacks on the eve of World War I.

President Trump announced on Sunday that the founder and leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a special operations mission on Saturday.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her round table discussion with Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro and what he told voters about his climate policy platform.

"Everything I write upsets somebody," Rushdie tells NPR's Scott Simon. His latest book, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, sweeps the reader into a turbulent, magical, mythological world.

When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of cancer, he declined medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David were faced with another decision: what would become of his body?

More than half of the world's Muslims live along the latitude line 700 miles north of the equator — so do most of the world's Christians. It's a place where ideological conflicts often arise. Journalist Eliza Griswold spent seven years examining how the two religions influence clashes over natural resources, tribal issues and faith.

The U.S. job market may be getting a second wind. Employers added 253,000 jobs in April, a modest uptick from the month before. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%.

Actor Michael Imperioli talks about his Broadway debut in An Enemy of the People and the relevance of this adaptation of the play, roughly 150 years after the original.

It's not just for weight loss. Patients and doctors alike are having success using the diet for illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. And research is taking off.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci about his decision to retire after nearly 40 years as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

The death toll on each side is rising since Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack in Gaza. The Israeli government has ordered a complete siege of Gaza strip.

Congressional leaders released a stop-gap spending bill to fund the government until March 14 but Republicans, including President-elect Trump, are objecting to additional spending in the bill.

It's the first time since May 2024 that 30-year mortgage rates have hit that mark. High rates are adding to the affordability challenges many Americans are facing.

Only about one in five homes sold in the last year went to a first-time buyer. And the average person buying their first home was 40 years old — a record high. A new report from the National Association of Realtors shows how challenging it's become for young people to get a foothold in today's costly housing market.

NPR's A Martinez talks to CNN reporter Matthew Chance about the thousands of migrants who are still stuck in dire conditions along the border between Belarus and Poland.