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Rep. Garret Graves was critical in helping Kevin McCarthy get the votes to be elected speaker. Now, he's taking the lead at the negotiating table on how to avoid a historic debt default.

Michael Emanuel Rajner says lawmakers are willing to shore up a purported $120 million deficit in the medication program and the health department "needs to stand down."

Vanessa Zoltan describes herself as a Jewish atheist whose outlook on the world and her spiritual life is defined by the Holocaust.

After a major storm hit the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with heavy rain, flash floods and tornadoes, multiple states now turn their attention to recovery.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to author Jim Murphy about his book, Inner Excellence, which has become a viral read among pro athletes and celebrities.

The music superproducer Quincy Jones died Sunday night at age 91. We revisit a conversation he had with NPR's Michele Norris in 2008.

The documentary Why We Fight Now tells the story of the Green Berets, the elite Special Forces soldiers whose specialty is counterinsurgency. They're known as the "quiet professionals," but a few years ago their commander decided to make a film about them — and its message is proving to be timely.

As we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Morning Edition asks for you to write a poem that starts with the words "I dream a world."

At 22 years old, the Los Angeles native will become the youngest poet in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration.

Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman worked as flight nurses for years. But it's the memory of one patient in particular, and his mom, that reminds them daily: "We're taking care of somebody's family."

Jason Szwimer once voiced the sassy sister on the long-running kids show Arthur. He's now hosting the podcast Finding D.W. and reaching out to others who voiced the character when they were boys.

Going on patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border with the Three Percent United Patriots — amped up and equipped with night vision goggles — felt like going to war, says journalist Shane Bauer.

Eowyn Ivey's novel about a Alaskan homesteaders longing for a child — and the magical snow girl who appears to them — has been reimagined as a bluegrass-infused musical.

Whenever artist Vanessa German worked on her porch, kids asked if they could help. Now, in a neighborhood struggling with poverty and crime, she's created a place where they can make art of their own.

The singer-songwriter turned her 2010 concept album into a folk-opera stage production and earlier this month, the show made its Broadway debut.

The opera star is known for her musical obsessions, her latest being the music and repertoire of 19th-century diva Maria Malibran. Bartoli has built a traveling shrine to Malibran, and they're currently on tour together.

To begin her recording career, conductor Marin Alsop was asked to record all of Samuel Barber's orchestral music. She quickly discovered that there's much more to the composer's music than his famed Adagio for Strings.

Public health experts know what it takes to control a disease outbreak: access to testing and vaccines. But in the last two months of the monkeypox outbreak, the response has not met the need.

Kelly Lytle Hernández's book, Bad Mexicans, tells the story of the rebels who fled from Mexico to the U.S. to publish an oppositional newspaper that would help spark revolution in Mexico.

Everything may seem to go wrong for the villainous Dr. Horrible, but life's peachy for Neil Patrick Harris, the actor who plays the bumbling baddie in the eponymous Internet musical. He's moved on from life as Doogie Howser, M.D., and was recently nominated for an Emmy for his role in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years in Mumbai's Annawadi slum. In her new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, she profiles people living in extreme poverty — right in the shadow of luxury hotels.

Officials have not yet released the names of the 14 people killed in the New Orleans New Year's Day truck attack, but their families and friends have started sharing their stories.

Florida's wild places are transforming and sometimes disappearing.

Veterans Affairs’ electronic health records aren’t friendly to blind- and low-vision users, whether they’re patients or employees. It’s a microcosm of America’s health care system.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said the curriculum would give students "a frame of reference so that they can better appreciate what we have here in America.”