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Even years after a person has lost an arm, the brain faithfully maintains the circuits that once controlled the missing limb.

NPR's Tom Bowman reports on the race to rescue a U.S. airman after his fighter jet was shot down.

Communities across the country are dealing with "Teen Takeovers" this summer. The viral social media trend is causing disruptions in public spaces across the country. Teens in Charlotte weigh in.

The awards start at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday night, hosted by Nate Bargatze.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Indiana University's Gerard Magliocca about the role of Congress in deciding whether former President Trump appears on ballots in Colorado and Maine.

Russia has increased its aerial assault on southern Ukraine, firing missiles at areas outside of the Donbas. But despite the threat, it's almost as if the war hasn't touched the port city Odesa.

She is the last of President Trump's cabinet nominees to get final approval from the U.S. Senate.

The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format.

David Greenberger travels the country talking with older people and collecting their stories. In Chattanooga, Tenn., Edna Wofford told him about knowing a bit too much about the future. A collection of stories is on the CD The Mayor of Tennessee River: Music By Shaking Ray Levis.

A Pinellas County law professor who worked in the U.S. Senate expressed dismay over the violence in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Glenn Gerstell, the former general counsel for the National Security Agency, about the recent cyberattack that Microsoft says targeted government agencies.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to director Sam Pollard about the HBO documentary, Black Art: In the Absence of Light. The film celebrates the rich history of art by Black Americans.

Director Michael Moore's latest documentary, Sicko, is an indictment of the U.S. health care system. Melissa Block sizes up Sicko — as entertainment and expose — with film critic Bob Mondello and science correspondent Joanne Silberner.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

On Sunday, Social Democrats beat German Chancellor Merkel's bloc. President Biden's agenda will face many tests this week. New COVID-19 cases have fallen by 20% over the last two weeks.

With voter enthusiasm among Democrats already lagging going into the midterms, immigration advocates say they will dampen it more by not calling for the 2020 public health order to be lifted.

A ship with a multinational crew patrols the waters between Turkey and Greece to protect migrants' lives. They don't always succeed. "We can hear them screaming before we see them," says a volunteer.

Haiti is on the verge of collapse, with little to no government. But many Haitians have already learned to live without the support of the state, as NPR discovered traveling to Cap-Haïtien.

President Trump continues to pursue very personal agenda items that are testing the limits of support from Republican members of Congress.

NPR's Lauren Frayer arrived in London after years in India, and she's been covering Britain with the legacy of empire in view.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Elisabeth Moss, star of The Veil, ahead of the action thriller show's season finale.

In his new book, Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen predicts that America will become a new, more creative meritocracy. Though he believes a rise in income inequality is inevitable, he hopes that "happiness inequality isn't going up in the same way."

Policing experts are condemning the actions of Memphis officers depicted in videos of a deadly altercation with Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old man who was stopped for a traffic violation.

Delegates and reporters partied inside Tropicana Field Sunday night, officially kicking off the Republican National Convention.Outside, protesters…

Christopher Ruddy, CEO of conservative media company Newsmax, talks about President Trump's decision to remove Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director less than 2 weeks after being named to the job.