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On Wednesday, Jamie Spears was suspended as his daughter's conservator. Is all the media attention, including three new Spears documentaries, still welcome?

Hudson wins entertainer of the year at the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards honoring work by entertainers of color, beating out Regina King, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion and Tiffany Haddish.

Its name alone is terrifying. But infections in humans are both rare and devastating. Here are five things to know about the microscopic brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

NPR's Life Kit host Marielle Segarra speaks with Saleem Reshamwala, the host of "The Dread Project," about the meaning of dread and exercises to help manage it.

The guys in this week's Barbershop — Jimi Izrael, Nick Charles, Ruben Navarrette and Arsalan Iftikhar — comb through the week's news. They weigh in on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation, Geraldine Ferraro's comments on Sen. Barack Obama and Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's lamentation.

NASA and SpaceX's Crew-11 mission is made up of two U.S. astronauts, one from Japan and a Russian cosmonaut. They'll be aboard the International Space Station for six months conducting research.

Smokers are no longer allowed to light up in public parks, at swimming pools, or at beaches, or "anywhere children may be present," said French health and family minister Catherine Vautrin.

Zohran Mamdani is leading in the polls in the NYC Mayor's race. Kamala Harris says he's earned Democratic backing, but some party leaders have been slow to endorse the Democratic-Socialist candidate.

Before COVID-19, the 1918-19 flu was universally considered the worst pandemic disease in human history. Whether the current scourge ultimately proves deadlier is unclear.

A hundred years after the first recorded samba, São Paulo is pioneering the genre's second act. The city's introspective anthems couldn't be more different than Rio's optimistic, breezy samba beat.

A common sentiment after a mass shooting is something like "this is the last place you'd expect this to happen." But what can those sentiments tell us about how society assigns empathy?

Britain on Tuesday shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.

The world's tennis greats are facing off at Wimbledon. Howard Bryant of ESPN is there and tells NPR's Eric Westervelt what's been happening on the grass courts.

The jazz pianist's latest album with his go-go backing band features a powerful song he wrote in tribute to the young Baltimore man who died in 2015 of injuries sustained in police custody.

The time has come to an end for the @sweden Twitter account. As NPR reported in 2015, it was passed from person to person each week.

Univita Health, which gained control of the entire Florida Medicaid home-care market a year ago, has suddenly lost all of its HMO contracts. The Florida...

The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a reminder of how very hungry he was.

The Istanbul landmark has long been hailed as a symbol of the coexistence of Christianity and Islam, a cultural junction between East and West.

Dave Isay, founder and president of StoryCorps, and the 2015 winner of the TED Prize, reveals the audacious wish he and the organization will use the $1 million award to realize.

At issue is whether a Texas law requiring clinics to meet surgical-center standards is aimed at safeguarding women's health or unconstitutionally limiting a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.

A U.S. delegation returns from North Korea, carrying a message from its leaders. The communist country says it has nuclear weapons and plans to build more. But officials doubt whether North Korea has the technology to back up those claims. One American scientist recounts his rare 1994 visit to the country's nuclear facilities, and the questions he was left with. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

In her debut collection, poet torrin a. greathouse explores what it means to be both trans and disabled, and the ways beauty can be a trap for trans women — so why not write towards ugliness?

Led by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, the garage-rock band The Fugs became a pivotal player in the American underground of the mid- to late '60s. The group retired in 1969 but re-formed in the mid-'80s and has performed and recorded regularly ever since. The band is set to release what could be its last album.

Most newspapers today are delivered by adults in cars, not kids on bikes. But in Carroll, young people who want to make some money on a paper route are growing up in the right place.

Holbrook played the Southern humorist for more than six decades in his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight. He's also known for playing Deep Throat in All the President's Men.