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The Tour de France concludes just as another storied cycling event begins: the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. This is RAGBRAI's 50th year.

A year ago, the Lightning rallied from 2-1 and 3-2 series deficits to eliminate the Maple Leafs from the opening round in seven games.

Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this.

Asian fantasy has been increasingly popular over the past few years, but some authors shelved in that category are wondering whether it's really a useful way of describing a vast and varied subgenre.

Members of the Miccosukee Tribe are trying to join a lawsuit challenging an immigrant detention center in the Everglades.

Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based senior editor-correspondent for NPR's National Desk.

They don't qualify for Medicaid in their states, but earn too little to be eligible for subsidized ACA health plans. It's a gap in health care coverage, and some politicians are trying to fix it.

Powell's family said that he died of complications from COVID-19, although he was fully vaccinated. Powell was a former general turned statesman who served as secretary of state under George W. Bush.

A five-year-old video game about coming together to battle a nightmarish plague of werewolves proves a surprising consolation during a real-world pandemic.

Part of a Maryland bridge collapses after a ship crashes into it. Israel cancels talks in Washington after cease-fire vote clears the U.N. Supreme Court abortion pill case could affect other drugs.

Nearly all USAID programs halted, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Panama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits D.C., and a look at the safety of marijuana products in the U.S.

After years of campaigning on social media, fans can now stream the 4-hour Zack Snyder's Justice League. What does that say about the relationship between fandoms and movie studios?

The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.

A reservist serving in a logistics support role for his combat unit reflects on his first weeks stationed in Gaza. He's one of hundreds of thousands of reservists called up since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

When it comes to performing, Jim Copeland is a pro. He’s been directing choirs since his dad volunteered him to lead music at a friend’s congregation,…

In our latest installment of Cineplexity, NPR staffers discuss how much horror is too much for kids to watch in movies.

What do you do with something that seems designed only to offend? Ignore it, or say something?

Verifying that a patient has paid for coverage under the Affordable Care Act can take hours. But if doctors' offices don't check, they can get stuck with the bill.

As efforts to get farmers to stop growing coca in favor of legal crops falter, some farmers feel abandoned. But one man says he'll stand by them, helping farmers shift to cacao for high-end chocolate.

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has been documenting Afghanistan since 1988. A retrospective in Kabul from his book, A Distant War, takes his photos back to the country where he made them.

While Syrian refugees in Lebanon return home, many Lebanese remain on edge. Years of conflict have left the Syria-Lebanon borderlands scarred, and fears grow that instability could spill over again.

The former NBC anchorman says his multiple myeloma diagnosis two years ago made him "more conscious of the fact that the days are more numbered." His new memoir is A Lucky Life Interrupted.

A Delray Beach-based filmmaker talks about the impact of hospital mergers on the cost of the care the new system provides, as spotlighted in her documentary, InHospitable.

Divya Victor's new book is a compilation of poems, memories, histories and essays, considering domestic terrorism against Asian Americans, in urgent words that spill out on the page like blood.

George Floyd's siblings shared their relief and trauma after the guilty verdict of the ex-cop who killed their brother. "The world saw his life being extinguished and I could do nothing but watch."