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Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi's CEO last year about a potential deal, but talks did not move forward. Now Meta is making its own prediction market app.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with a former nanny from Shanghai about what life has been like since returning to the city during pandemic restrictions.

Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel paramilitaries a year ago, experts estimate over 14,000 people have been killed and millions displaced and facing starvation.

The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, Titicut Follies, revealed appalling conditions at a prison facility.

"I'm not ever going to forget what I've done," says a woman once convicted of prostitution. "But, at the same time, I don't want it thrown in my face every time I'm trying to seek employment."

A tenuous peace holds in Sadr City between U.S. forces and followers of militant anti-American cleric Moktada Sadr. Shiite militiamen who were shooting at U.S. soldiers last summer are now helping man Iraqi police checkpoints and assisting in reconstruction.

The traditional order of corporate America, with younger workers reporting to older bosses, is often turned on its head these days. The trend is the spark for the comedy In Good Company. As NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, the phenomenon isn't merely in the movies.

Banker Ella Beavers had her colleagues wondering about the black eye she brought to work one day. "It was hard to hide... but I managed," the 31-year-old Albanian-born banker says. Her co-workers soon learned the reason for the injury: her newfound passion for boxing.

Conor Oberst says he's not deliberately thinking about fleeing home — but it keeps coming up in his songs. He's written about a road trip, the healing powers of the road and escape. For his latest album, which is self-titled, he recorded on the grounds of a vacant hotel in Mexico.

Prior to the Civil War, some free black people owned slaves. Author Edward P. Jones picked up on that little-known fact and has written a vivid first novel that looks at slavery through a different lens. On Morning Edition, hear an interview with Jones and a review of The Known World. Read an excerpt of the book.

Roni Zulu is a Los Angeles-based tattoo artist who's done work for stars including Janet Jackson, Queen Latifah and Debra Wilson. But he's not your typical tattoo artist. He sees all his art -- including the celebrity tattoos -- as sacred work.

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel literature prize. Pamuk, 54, gained international acclaim for books including Snow, Istanbul and My Name Is Red. But he has also earned notoriety for legal troubles over his comments on Turkey's past.

Army Staff Sgt. Michael Gabel, 30, was killed last week in a roadside blast in Afghanistan. In a story NPR aired last month, Gabel spoke eloquently about the loss of his best friend in the line of duty.

San Francisco celebrates Barry Bonds Day in the wake of the slugger's Tuesday night home run, which broke the career home-run record set by Hank Aaron in 1974.

Sgt. 1st Class John Marshall died during a daring re-supply mission into Baghdad in April 2003. Twenty-two months after his death, Denise Marshall is struggling to raise their three children and feels forgotten by the Army her late husband served.

Comic books have become a new frontier for the portrayal of scientific ideas and the drama of discovery. But they're also a battleground for the ongoing debate between evolutionary scientists and proponents of creationism.

NPR's Robert Siegel spends a year with Maria Jooste as she tries to launch an opera career. It's a year of acting classes, singing lessons, understudy appearances and an unexpected stage debut. It's also a year of setbacks, and the realization that a stellar voice may not guarantee stardom.

Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs releases her first album produced without her ex-husband, who she divorced in 2019.

The Southwest Florida Water Management District is limiting lawn-watering in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties to once a week until July 1.

Many parts of South Florida have received over a foot of rain and the rains are forecast to continue, intense, at least through Friday. The ground is already saturated exacerbating dangerous floods.

Five Republicans seeking to oust President Joe Biden from the White House in 2024 sparred over the Israel-Hamas war, the threat from China and the U.S. approach to terrorism early in the third presidential primary debate. They repeatedly expressed support for Israel and decried Hamas, while criticizing Biden for his administration’s response.

Ed Gordon speaks to author Connie Briscoe about her latest novel Can't Get Enough, set in the affluent African-American enclave of Prince George's County.

The novel is about a flavor chemist who tests a sweetener on lab rats and monkeys and finds side effects the company covers up. Author Stephan Eirik Clark says he was inspired by Fast Food Nation.

The Trump administration is exploring ways to reverse the nation's falling birth rate. A new AP-NORC poll finds most adults don't see this as a priority.

The men’s team captured Americans’ hearts with a bronze medal in the team all-around final on Monday. But in the individual event, U.S. gymnasts Frederick Richard and Paul Juda couldn't keep up.