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It's mud season in Vermont — time to put on a pair of boots and head to a sugar house where the sap is boiling. Mud season, of course, is one of the six seasons in Vermont — yes, six! There's also "stick season" in the late fall.

Many Indians are dying without COVID-19 tests or medical care. Crematoriums are overwhelmed, and scientists say India's real death toll may be many times higher than the official government count.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Sherry Johnson about being a child bride and Fraidy Reiss of the organization Unchained At Last about her work to end child marriage in the U.S.

A retelling of James Garfield's assassination and other recent TV programs about history show an interest in saying 'who we were, who we are and who we're going to be,' explains presidential historian Alexis Coe, senior fellow at New America.

Car washes are popping up everywhere in the United States. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Bloomberg contributor Patrick Sisson about what's fueling their growth.

The new health care law could shift billions of dollars from cash-strapped states to the federal government by changing the way Medicaid prescription drug rebates are treated.

This Sunday will mark 15 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks.Surrounded by law enforcement, paramedics and firefighters at the Tampa…

After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Emma Brown, an investigative reporter at The Washington Post, about sexual violence perpetrated against boys.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Nicole Hines of Davenport, Iowa, about how the loss of SNAP benefits and the closure of a Head Start school that her granddaughter attended are affecting her life.

We visited Olfactory NYC to design a scent and to learn why perfume sales are up since 2018.

The U.S. government announces that it is expanding efforts to test wild and domestic birds for the deadly Asian bird-flu virus. Experts say it is a matter of when, not if, the virus arrives in the United States. We visit two Maryland chicken farms to see how U.S. farmers are preparing for the threat.

To kickoff NPR's 50th anniversary celebration, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with three of NPR's "Founding Mothers" — Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.

In Maryland, more juveniles are tried as adults than in almost any other state. State Sen. William Smith is on a mission to change that.

Biden's comments — made as officials try to convince Americans to get a new booster shot and the White House seeks $22 billion in new COVID funding — were "unfortunate," several epidemiologists said.

Writer and Washington, D.C., resident Katie Davis often drives neighborhood kids to school sporting events. Recently, driving in the car on the way to a basketball game, the tussle over what music to listen to on the radio made Davis realize the gap between the generations is really not that wide.

After decades of climbing cases of sexually transmitted infections, cases slowed between 2022 and 2023. Here’s why.

Among the fairly unknown team from South Carolina is Butch Bowers, who represents public officials in ethics cases. A first for him, he has to defend the former president in a trial unlike any other.

Amid criticism over multiple security breaches at the White House, the Secret Service has erected a second fence around the North Lawn. Critics call it an eyesore.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is scheduled to reopen to the public on Saturday, August 29th. We go behind the scenes to learn how curators and staff hope to pull it off.

Ivanka Trump led the U.S. delegation to a global business summit in the Indian IT hub. Some put the gushing over Trump down to Indian love of celebrities. Others cited her access to the Oval Office.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Kris Thomas, a reporter for Roar Media, a digital news site in Sri Lanka, about the latest news concerning Sunday's terrorism attacks in the country.

In Latin America, it's said the only part of a prison the guards control is the gate, leaving convicts to fend for themselves. The inmate boss of one prison takes NPR's Steve Inskeep on a tour.

After decades of war in Afghanistan, the country has thousands of orphans. One home for these children ended up with an improbable benefactor — an Iranian-American who came to Kabul to do rule of law development work, and stumbled into a side project working with disabled orphans.

Rights groups say 1,900 people were detained in weekend protests over the arrest of the opposition presidential candidate.