Search results for

Illinois has a new law making it illegal for employers to force their employees into so-called captive audience meetings. It’s aimed at helping workers who are trying to unionize.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the ramifications of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Venezuelans continue to protest Sunday’s disputed election in which President Nicolas Maduro claimed victory. The opposition says it has evidence that their candidate won.

Hezbollah and Hamas have buried their slain leaders. The leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said the war in Gaza had now entered a new phase.

Lake has been a supporter of former President Donald Trump ever since launching her political career with a failed campaign for governor of Arizona in 2022. Trump has endorsed her Senate bid.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Errin Haines, of the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, about former President Trump's decision to speak to the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention.

Families learn to be skeptical about vaccines in communities where incomplete vaccination is the norm. A researcher into the phenomenon found that people are ready to listen, if they're heard, too.

Since the shooting, young Parkland survivors have emerged as the driving force in calling for stricter gun laws in the U.S., through a series of marches, school walkouts and voter registration drives.

How did Samuel Barber's stirring, lush work for strings — music that has become America's semi-official music of mourning — morph into a beloved and endlessly remixed dance floor anthem?

The Vatican says gender is god-given, dismissing the idea that there is any right to choose one's gender. The Vatican said a fluid idea of identity is not "based on the truths of existence."

We have an update on congressional negotiations over border wall funding and the political turmoil in Virginia.

Former President Donald Trump thumps Vice President Harris in name recognition, but analysts say Beijing sees both as bad news.

Parents of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students were at a news conference with Florida's governor on Wednesday to call for changes to the school board following last year's deadly shooting.

Flamagra, the latest album from Flying Lotus, plays like a high-speed chase through a carnival fun house — a sideshow attraction of the mind.

Scientists often share their latest research on posters displayed at big conferences. Posters are a long-standing tradition, but one reformer says they're mostly terrible and need to change.

A new generation of blood tests can help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. But many doctors don't yet know how to use them.

American Reporter Evan Gershkovich was among the more than 20 prisoners exchanged by Russia, the U.S. and European countries.

A lot of major news stories happened this week. We review some of them.

Even as coal plants shut down, they leave behind massive piles of toxic coal ash. About half that coal ash is unregulated, and environmental groups want the Biden administration to change that.

The Olympics opening ceremony gets underway Friday on the River Seine. NPR's Michel Martin talks to the mayor of Paris’s central district about how the event is transforming the city.

The 3rd Annual Adaptive Golf Open is underway in Kansas as disabled golfers from 32 states and 11 countries vy for a championship. The field includes A 20 year old Utah golfer, paralyzed from a ski accident, who’s back defending the championship he won last year in the seated impairment category

In 1969, oil from an offshore well left beaches in Santa Barbara, Calif., coated with crude and littered with dead birds. The country's reaction helped create the modern environmental movement.

China's dynamic economy is slowing, giving some U.S. officials confidence America will have the upper hand with China in tough trade talks. But Chinese leaders may not be inclined to make concessions.

In his new book, the author imagines a world where officers known as Speculators track down liars, in a cross between a dystopian novel and a classic detective story.

Director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Blue Moon, which focuses on one fateful night toward the end of lyricist Lorenz Hart's life.