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The stopgap funding bill goes through February, and is the latest in a series of short-term extensions.

Pianist Min Kwon asked 70 artists to examine and interpret the patriotic standard on solo piano. "What they have in common is what they want America to sound like," she says.

Swedish musician and DJ Avicii has died at 28. NPR's Ari Shaprio talks with KCRW's Jason Bentley about his career.

Youth Radio's Brandon McFarland recalls corporal punishment as a child. He says he deserved it, and he knows that it meant that his parents cared enough to discipline him.

For the beautiful heiress to the Cunard shipping fortune, a life like Paris Hilton's wasn't an option. Though she partied with celebrities and had many lovers, Cunard dedicated her life to fighting for the oppressed. A new book shines a spotlight on her complex life.

Most people wouldn't describe the periodic table of elements as gripping, but Sam Kean makes it just that in his new book, The Disappearing Spoon.

In the spring of 2004, when Americans were horrified by the pictures of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, medical-ethics expert Steven Miles had just one question: Where were the doctors? Miles, himself a doctor, has written a book about how the medical profession failed to perform its role as protector.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman says everything we think, do and believe is determined by complex neural networks battling it out in our brains. In Incognito, he explains what scientists are learning about this hidden world of cognition.

The Pritzker Prize was awarded Thursday. "In every work, he is able to answer with radical originality, making the unobvious obvious," said fellow Chilean architect and prize chair Alejandro Aravena.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Paul Rudnick about his new novel, The Tuxedo Society.

The Supreme Court has concluded oral arguments for this year's term, which featured remote sessions and a new justice.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with three White House correspondents — NPR's Tamara Keith, Yamiche Alcindor of PBS and Jeff Mason of Reuters — about their journeys covering the Trump presidency.

The board went against previous review committees' recommendations to keep more than half the books.

When Gov. Ron DeSantis was making the case to reopen Florida at the end of April, he pointed to data about the coronavirus that was trending in the right…

Hurricane Ida alone caused more than $60 billion in damages, making it one of the five most costly U.S. hurricanes on record since 1980. Forecasters ran out of names for a record second year in a row.

Therapists who work with autistic children in the Medicaid system are having problems getting required state credentials, according to providers.The issue…

It started with a civil rights rally, and ended in riots. NPR investigates how 16 of India's most famous human rights activists were jailed for an alleged terror plot. They say they were framed.

Did former Vice President Dick Cheney order the CIA to keep Congress in the dark about a program to capture or kill al-Qaeda leaders? NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving, Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Peter Hoekstra discuss a potential congressional investigation. Meanwhile, will Attorney General Eric Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture during the Bush administration?

U.S. Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe plans on retiring after the upcoming World Cup and National Women's Soccer League season. Rapinoe is known for her on-field play as well as social justice advocacy.

The former Trump campaign manager turned himself in to the FBI. Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Ryan Lucas.

Three years since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the civil unrest that followed, several Black entrepreneurs are revitalizing a historic retail building that was nearly lost to arson.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is in Islamabad. He is expected to urge President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to lift the state of emergency he imposed early this month. On the eve of Negroponte's arrival, authorities lifted the house arrest of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

James Alex Fields Jr. is charged with second-degree murder after one woman died and at least 19 people were injured. Reporters from the Toledo Blade tracked down his mother and a former teacher.

Brazil ends 2016 reeling from a massive corruption scandal and the impeachment of its president. We consider the shaky footing on which the interim president seeks to lead the country into 2017.

A U.S. drone strike in January killed an American being held hostage in Pakistan by al-Qaida, the White House announced Thursday. Warren Weinstein was killed along with another aid worker, from Italy.