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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Tuesday. On Sunday, Turkey conducted airstrikes in northern Iraq against the Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK, rebels. Michael Rubin, resident fellow at The American Enterprise Institute, discusses Turkey's actions.

NPR's Rachel Martin checks back in with a Ukrainian college student, who she met a month ago, about what keeps her going in the midst of war.

Before he was a journalist, NPR science correspondent Joe Palca studied psychology, and focused on sleep research. He found it frustrating to study sleep: Though there are many questions about why and how we sleep, scientists have very few answers.

Last week, StateImpact Florida told you how a middle school in Miami has added speech and debate courses this year to improve reading, writing and…

Anxieties about artificial intelligence fuel the year's first hit movie.

Edwards hosted the show for more than 24 years. One of his longest-running radio relationships was also one of listeners' favorites: weekly conversation with sports broadcasting legend Red Barber.

How much of a hold does Trump have on the GOP right now and what does his impeachment tell us about where the GOP is headed?

NPR's Scott Simon talks sports with ESPN's Howard Bryant. They'll cover the surprises of the NBA playoffs so far and the historically hot start by baseball's Boston Red Sox.

Ramses Ja and Quinton Ward, hosts of the radio show Civic Cipher, have filed for the trademark "White Lives Matter," so the phrase can't be used to sell merchandise.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Dina Nayeri about her new book Who Gets Believed? and how expanding the stories we are familiar with can help us to believe strangers and vulnerable populations.

Monique Pressley is called "masterful" in her public message. She hits the spotlight of the Bill Cosby case after a career as a defense attorney, prosecutor and religion-based broadcaster.

"Everybody should consider what it would mean to lose their child, their spouse," says Philip Schentrup. His daughter Carmen was among the 17 students and staff killed in Parkland, Fla., last year.

The film is reportedly the first feature-length fiction movie shot in space, telling the story of a doctor who rushes to save the life of a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station.

Firefighters in California made good progress over the weekend trying to corral several fires as winds calmed. But questions still persist over the warnings given to residents beforehand.

NPR's A Martinez talks to retired Col. Mark Cancian about what Putin's partial mobilization of the Russian military and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory tell us about the next phase of the war.

Arizona was one of six states where voters put abortion rights protections into their state constitutions. But some abortion providers there don't think all their hurdles are behind them.

Javier Burgos, General Manager of Habana Compas Dance, says you can't take the music out of Cuba.It's as natural as a beating heart. "The Cuban people are…

NPR's Linda Wertheimer walks the halls of power — and the local cafes — with crime novelist Mike Lawson, whose Joe DeMarco books serve up murder and mayhem in the nation's capital.

Chrissy Teigen is facing backlash after bullying tweets she wrote to others came to light. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to reporter Taylor Ferber about why canceling Teigen might not be the answer.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) talks with Robert Siegel about the CIA's decision to destroy videos of interrogation suspects, and about Republican strategy as a Congressional recess and deadlines for a variety of spending bills loom.

Throngs of people lined the streets of London to witness the spectacle surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rep. Mike Lawler about debt ceiling negotiations. This week, President Biden pressed his case in a speech in the moderate Republican's New York district.

One of the world's most prominent climate scientists is suing a right-wing author and a policy analyst for defamation, a case with big stakes for attacks on scientists.

Francis Spufford's novel imagines a 1920s city in which Native Americans still hold territory and political power, and the "color line" doesn't exist — until a grisly murder disrupts everything.

In the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 58% say Trump is responsible for the riot at the Capitol, but most Republicans don't — and most of them don't accept the accuracy of the election either.