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The hottest place on Earth is as hot as it's ever been, at least in terms of recorded temperatures in modern times.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Violet Kupersmith about Build Your House Around My Body. It's the story of a woman's disappearance in Vietnam, populated by vengeful — but not always scary — ghosts.

The FDA approves new prescribing instructions for Aduhelm to address confusion over who should get the drug, saying it is appropriate for patients with early or mild Alzheimer’s.

As the first anniversary of the Pulse shooting approaches, there's an effort underway to transform the Orlando nightclub into a museum and a memorial to the 49 people killed.

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub attack and family members of those killed are preparing for the trial of the shooter's widow.

President Biden defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan despite the Taliban gaining power and threatening the Afghan government.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Francine Prose about her latest book, The Vixen, which is loosely based on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, suspected spies for Russia who were executed in 1953.

The CDC has revised guidance for schools for fall 2021. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten about the latest recommendations for in-person learning.

Officials have unveiled plans to boost security around the debris pile. "This has become much more than a collapsed building site," said mayor Charles Burkett said. "It has become a holy site."

Just days after Chinese ride-hailing company Didi's $4 billion market debut in June, the Chinese government removed it from app stores and accused the company of violating data security rules.

A new attack ad targeting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock blames a "radical left woke crowd" for moving the game out of Atlanta. It will air during the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game.

Tahmima Anam's new novel is about a married couple who found a tech startup. The platform's success turns the husband into a messiah figure — even though it was his wife who designed it.

From a sun-drenched spot outside Electric Lady Studios, Jack Antonoff and company perform intimate revisions of songs from their forthcoming album, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.

A huge, magnitude-8.7 earthquake in April produced stronger ground shaking than any earthquake ever recorded, and surprised seismologists by triggering more than a dozen moderate earthquakes around the world. One seismologist thinks we're witnessing the gradual evolution of a new boundary between tectonic plates.

Even as Pennsylvania's controversial new voter ID law faces court challenges, nonprofits and other groups are busy helping the state's voters, especially the poor and elderly, weave their way through a sometimes complicated bureaucratic process to get a photo ID before the election.

Janitors suffer some of the highest rates of injury on the job. That costs employers millions of dollars in compensation and lost work time. A Florida school district decided to address the issue by instituting a fitness test for prospective custodians. But the test is so tough the district is having a hard time filling positions.

Robert talks to R. Jeffrey Smith, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post. Smith says that the CIA has dropped about 1000 paid informants from its roster in an effort to clear their payroll of terrorists, smugglers and people involved in human rights abuses. In the process, the agency also dismissed sources who had not produced much useful information.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meeting with President Clinton to discuss the next steps in the U.S. sponsored peace process. The president was sympathetic to Arafat's criticism of Israel's latest plans to build new Jewsish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem and said such a move built mistrust instead of the confidence needed to make the peace process work.

after Scottish scientists announced over the weekend that they'd successfully cloned a sheep. The future of the process is in question. It appears that it would work on other animals, possibly even humans, but most see that as unethical and unacceptable. But researchers say the development could provide valuable information for human health and diseases.

Seemingly arcane exercises in the days and weeks ahead will in fact represent – and may even resolve — real conflicts over national issues of enormous importance.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Federal Treasury Employees Union President Anthony Reardon about the challenges of implementing the Biden administration's new vaccine requirements for federal workers.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, about the aim for the FDA to certify the vaccines for more than emergency use.

The infrastructure bill making its way through Senate is 2,700 pages of proposed spending on roads, trains, broadband and more. The White House is also taking steps to set automobile fuel standards.

The FDA could outline steps for full approval in a bid to be more transparent and to reassure those hesitant to get the vaccine, says Dr. Leana Wen of George Washington University.

about the complicated process of naming newly created chemical elements. Dr. Becker is the Secretary-General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the body that decides disputes between laboratories each proposing their own chemical names.