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As Britain celebrates Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years for her as monarch, Newsweek editor Tina Brown recommends readings on the history of the queen's reign and her enduring popularity.

In his new book, food historian David Downie takes readers on a gourmet jaunt through time to reveal how the French capital became a gastronomic powerhouse. (Hint: You can thank Rome.)

Once upon a time, tacos were a Mexican snack. Now they're an all-American institution. Gustavo Arellano leads us across Southern California in search of the roots of the American taco.

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss sports.

The U.S. produces more oil and gas than any country in the world. So why are prices at the pump 30% higher than they were last year? The Indicator (and brand new Indicator newsletter) explains!

Nursing homes are often thought of as grim places. But a new approach is being tested. Instead of an institutional setting, the goal now is to provide a homelike — but safe — atmosphere for residents.

The president signed four executive orders to reverse the trend away from coal-fired electricity in the U.S., but there's little economic incentive for utilities to bring it back when natural gas is so much cheaper.

On the aching Dunya, the artist stands at an east-west crossroads, trying to resolve a young striver's years of trauma with a folklorist's drive to preserve what's left.

The Senate's special committee on the Affordable Care Act voted along party lines Monday to reject Medicaid expansion, with members saying they want to…

Borrowers may have gotten an email from President Joe Biden this week, canceling their sudent debt.

The Senate passed a measure early into the New Year, and now it's up to the house to vote on the deal, which will most likely happen by Wednesday. The measure cleared the Senate on an 89-8 vote, hours after V.P. Joe Biden and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sealed a deal.

In Zuckerberg's second day of testifying in the federal antitrust trial, he defended Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The U.S. government wants Meta to bust up the two companies.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Kai Bird about his biography of President Jimmy Carter: The Outlier. Bird's book takes a close look at the four years Carter was in office.

In eastern Ukraine, white nylon nets now stretch over roads and city streets, a low-tech defense against deadly FPV drones that dominate the battlefield and threaten civilians near the front line.

A federal appeals court struck down most of President Trump's import taxes. But the tariffs are still being collected for now — leaving U.S. importers in a kind of tariff limbo.

Esther Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit "Release Me."

Chris Arnold is a correspondent with NPR's investigations team. His reports are heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.

Photographer Greg Miller has been documenting Ash Wednesday for two decades. Now those strangers he stopped on the street are part of his upcoming book, Unto Dust.

A sixth of American women are victims of rape or attempted rape. Victims still face blame and disbelief, and few rapists are punished. Rosem Morton tells her own experience, in photos and a letter.

Adam Kinzinger describes himself as a Republican moderate; something he says is a dying breed in American politics.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Abbot Elementary's Sheryl Lee Ralph about her lengthy career and finding a spotlight later in life.

The assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday has pitched the country into uncertainty. Haiti was already in crisis even before its president's assassination.

The University of Kansas just won the NCAA men's basketball championship, but the results of an investigation into recruiting violations may spoil the party.

JPMorgan agreed to the settlement on the same day a federal judge granted class-action status to the lawsuit, saying the number of plaintiffs involved could be "well over 100 people."

Cuomo is known as a "take-no-prisoners kind of guy." He's been getting praise even from some critics for his daily briefings and decisive actions as New York becomes the hardest hit state in the U.S.