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Last month the haunting and delicate music from the score of The Social Network won the Oscar for best original score, and for millions of fans of the industrial band Nine Inch Nails, there was a moment of jaw-dropping surprise when a clean-cut Trent Reznor took the stage to accept the award.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with economist Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics about the wide-ranging effects of Russia's faltering economy.

A Chinese-American businesswoman travels the multiverse in the comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once by the filmmaking duo Daniels, made up of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

The Nebraska congressman was charged after denying to the FBI that he was aware he had received illicit funds from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.

19-year-old Pradeep Mehra works 1 p.m. to 11 p.m., then runs home to keep in shape for his goal: joining India's highly selective army. A video of his nightly jog has become a Twitter sensation.

Many district's schools in urban areas are operating at reduced capacity, while schools in rural areas are packed, one board member said.

After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's medical condition, there are renewed conversations about toxic masculinity and concepts of feminine beauty.

For COVID patients, ECMO is a last-ditch respiratory treatment in which only about half survive. Yet a new small study suggests many lives would still have been saved if there had been more machines.

The spread of misinformation about solar and wind energy is leading some states and counties to restrict or even reject projects. Researchers say it's a threat to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to law professor Melissa Murray about questions raised by Republican senators regarding same-sex marriage during this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

The computer system used for law enforcement in the Houston area crashed on March 24, preventing defendants from getting an initial court hearing within the legal timeframe.

An investigation revealed a flawed voter registration system in Florida, nearly two years after dueling court battles over how to implement a state constitutional amendment that allowed felons to vote legally without going through a complex process to have their rights restored.

In 22 of 250 metro areas, women under the age of 30 earn as much or more than their male counterparts, a Pew Research Center report found.

A second-grade class wrote persuasive letters on behalf of shelter dogs, urging folks to adopt the animals. So far, the young writers have been successful.

Many of the lowest-income federal student loan borrowers have had their hopes of debt cancellation delayed or derailed as a result of mismanagement, NPR found.

Secretary of State Laurel Lee filed a motion Friday in U.S. district court in Tallahassee seeking a stay of a federal lawsuit filed March 11 by the groups Common Cause Florida and FairDistricts Now and five voters.

Officials say Kyiv is liberated after Ukrainian forces staved off Russian attacks. Here's a look at what kind of outside help they got and the strategies they deployed.

NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Atlantic, writer Derek Thompson, about how low births, high deaths and heavy restrictions on immigration could steer the U.S. into a "demographic danger zone."

This year, the Grammys has not 1 but 2 "global" categories. But 7 of the nominees come from just 2 countries: Benin and Nigeria. It's part of a Grammy pattern of focusing on a short list of nations.

More than four years after Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at a Florida high school, the sentencing phase of his trial began Monday. He's pleaded guilty. A jury will decide if he gets the death penalty.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear of the group Barlow and Bear about breaking into musical theater via TikTok and their 'Bridgerton' musical.

Proponents of the law argue that it will be used to “promote intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” in the classroom.

In 2016, one of the deepest sinkholes ever recorded in Florida opened beneath Mosaic's New Wales site.

Scott Simon talks to Dr. Karin Johnson of the Baystate Regional Sleep Medicine Program about the health downsides of switching to daylight saving time, as Congress considers the issue.

Artist Phung Huynh incorporates pink donut boxes into her portraits of young Cambodian-Americans who grew up in their family donut stores in Southern California.