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NPR's Noel King talks to Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, about the risk of cyberattacks on the country's infrastructure, following the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.

Spain has pardoned nine leaders in the Catalan independence movement, who were convicted of sedition in 2019. Catalonia's 2017 failed bid for independence was modern Spain's greatest political crisis.

In his visit on Thursday, the prime minister will try to leverage the U.K.'s so-called "special relationship" with U.S. and act as a bridge between the Trump administration and U.S. allies in Europe.

China's economic growth has been slowing down for years. Tariffs have contributed to slower growth since early 2018, when the economic standoff began, but it's hard to pinpoint how much.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author and journalist Farai Chideya about her experiences attempting adoption. She writes about it in a piece titled "Excuse Me, May I Raise Your Child?"

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for a ninth straight day. They accuse the government of using the coronavirus crisis to push through market-based changes without consulting them.

A high-ranking European Union lawmaker is one of several people snared in a corruption probe by Belgian officials for allegedly taking bribes from a Gulf state.

As cryptocurrencies become more popular, crypto companies are tried to drum up excitement at the Super Bowl.

The tropics continue to be prolific. Within the next seven days, there is a high chance of having the 18th named storm of the season.

On the first trip of his Presidency to Africa, President Biden went to the National Slavery museum to remember the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans taken from Angola to the U.S.

A group of students from Brooklyn see every day how climate change disproportionately affects their community. They made a podcast that asked: Why?

The candidates — three Democrats and one Republican — clashed over issues including the conflict between Israel and Hamas as they faced off in a 90-minute debate in Los Angeles Monday evening.

A new book Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World unpacks the lens through which Black characters have been seen. Will Haygood, the author, explores this using three movies.

The storms also have struck Belgium and other European countries. More than 60 people have died and dozens remain missing. In Germany has a state of emergency and the army has been deployed.

For decades after his death, Roosevelt was regarded as a hyperactive New York swell. It wasn't until John Morton Blum published The Republican Roosevelt that Roosevelt assumed his stature as a force to be reckoned with in the Oval Office. Political historian Lewis Gould talks about the impact of Blum's study.

Tens of thousands of drivers had to make a new plan after a fire in Philadelphia destroyed a section of Interstate 95.

World leaders at COP26 signed a new climate change agreement. But young people are skeptical about when those promises will turn into action, and if the actions go far enough.

Linda talks with Whit Ayres (WIT A-urz) of Q.W Ayres and Associates, and Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates about whether or not the accepted ideas about what voters want...from tax cuts to a reduced deficit...are really holding true in this election season.

President Biden has been under pressure from some of his fellow Democrats to withdraw from the race after he badly stumbled in last week's presidential debate.

Rome's Colosseum, the London Eye and the Empire State Building and other iconic buildings were lit up in purple on Thursday, to highlight visibility and equal treatment for people with disabilities.

This list tackles history in the making, celebrating women and non-binary musicians whose songs are redefining genres and attitudes and changing our sense of what popular music can be in this century.

President Biden signed a directive aimed at improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure systems like energy and food — but it's up to private companies to actually follow those standards.

The first woman to receive the experimental treatment says she was driven to volunteer for the Phase 1 trial out of a sense of helplessness.

In Iraq these days, about 100 IEDs go off each month. Previously, it was about 50. Most of the attacks are in the capital Baghdad, and many of them are what in local parlance are called sticky IEDs -- homemade bombs attached to powerful magnets and stuck to the bottom of cars.

It's the second time "The Star-Spangled Banner" drew that reaction in two games the United States has played at the NHL-run international tournament.