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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, one of four members of Joe Biden's search committee who helped pick Senator Kamala Harris as Biden's running mate.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about President Biden's latest student loan debt forgiveness plan.

As interest in reading for pleasure declines in the U.S. overall, there’s one genre that’s been steadily drawing readers in with promises of happily-ever-afters: romance.

After Hurricane Idalia swept through North Florida, some farmers faced tough decisions about whether to continue their profession or “sell out and leave.”

Democratic lawmakers and others say it politicizes higher education and distracts from more pressing statewide issues.

Jeff Berardelli in Tampa and John Morales in Miami say the response from audiences has been mostly positive. Berardelli says, "We're being irresponsible if we're not providing context."

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are experiencing unique challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. But they can also offer valuable insights into coping with pandemic-induced anxiety.

Lynne and Moorer are sisters with long, acclaimed solo careers, but they've long kept their musical lives separate. For the first time, the two performed a few intimate shows on the road together this fall.

Children's books seem simple, but good ones are deceptively complicated to write and illustrate. The images and the text depend on each other, and author Martin Salisbury says it's quite a challenge to condense a story into just 32 pages while maintaining simplicity and elegance.

Canada's official opposition, the Conservative Party, will announce the results of elections for a new party leader on Saturday.The favored candidate has been compared to former President Trump.

Jeff Beck, one the most acclaimed guitarists in rock and roll history, died Tuesday after contracting bacterial meningitis, according to his family. He was 78 years old.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Netflix's four-part miniseries tells the story of two young people — one French, one German — in the years before and during the Nazi occupation of France.

Host Steve Inskeep talks to Will Schwalbe, co-author of Send: The Essential Guide to E-mail for Office and Home, about e-mail overload.

Half of the former Marriott hotel rooms are available to rent as studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. Another 88 units are expected to become available by the end of the year.

During her medallion speech in 2001, University of South Florida System President Judy Genshaft set a goal: get USF on the same level as the state's two…

Since the fall of Roe, a once-fringe network of hardline anti-abortion activists has been pushing to classify abortion as homicide. Once shunned from policy discussion, they are seeing progress.

Author and activist Tiffany Hammond talks about her new children's book A Day With No Words. It details a day in the life of non-speaking kids with autism and their families.

Finding a place to live is just the start. A doctor shares his experiences with two hurricane refugees.

The anti-vaccine political scion is running as an independent for president, is threatening both parties and is polling higher than any independent in 40 years. But those high numbers tend to fade.

As a new year begins, we look back at some of our favorite interviews of 2021.

The former president blasted Republicans who have crossed him and kept up repeated election lies in an NPR interview.

A confrontation between religious freedom and public safety has reached the Supreme Court of Texas. The battle is over access to a site where Native Americans have been holding spiritual ceremonies for centuries.

NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris about calls to impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh after new allegations of sexual misconducts were revealed over the weekend.

The former co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter faced criticism in 2017 for calling the president a white supremacist. In her memoir, Uphill, she talks about her career and her life growing up in Detroit.

Google, Apple and other industry leaders have global headquarters in Ireland. But the U.S. Congress and others aren't happy, and the Irish are reconsidering some of these business-friendly tax laws.