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Artist Antonio Alcala gets the stamp of approval for his new USPS postage stamp.

People from Florida to Washington want a piece of Frank the Liberty Tree, a huge oak between 250 and 300 years old that was struck by lightning years ago and now must come down.

The four members of NASA's Crew-11 mission are heading home from the International Space Station. Their journey is ending a month early due to an astronaut with a "serious medical condition."

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post journalist who the DOJ says was receiving classified information from a Pentagon contractor.

Sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democrats, the grant money will be restored.

The Trump administration has cut nearly 2 billion dollars in funding for programs that serve people with mental illness and substance abuse issues. Providers say the cuts are devastating.

Immigration agents are threatening protesters with arrest while protesters are making noise and trying to prevent immigration arrests. The legality of the actions of both sides appears to be in flux.

President Trump is dismantling the global system the U.S. built in the 20th century. Foreign policy experts say he wants a world that looks more like the 19th century.

Iranians are using Starlink to get online during the government's near-total internet shutdown.

Protestar es un derecho constitucionalmente protegido. Sin embargo, existen lineamientos y leyes que deben tenerse en cuenta.

Although the U.S. Congress recently passed a law banning female circumcisions in this country, doctors at a public hospital in Seattle are considering offering a "symbolic nick" -- a modified form of the procedure to Somali families who've asked to have their daughters circumcised. KPLU reporter Christine Arrasmith says the hospital wants to deter the new immigrants from having the more radical surgery performed, but critics say the compromise implies tolerance of a practice that should be stopped.

David Hecht reports from Senegal on a unique educational program which has been quite successful in getting whole villages to renounce the traditional practice of female circumcision. The approach is built around a series of two-month courses which focus on a range of topics, from hygiene to human rights. The program goes on for a full year before the subject of female circumcision is even raised. Facilitators do not say it is wrong, or that it inhibits sexual pleasure; they merely focus on the procedure's health risks.

Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on the push against ultra processed foods and added sugar, and what that could mean for school lunches and food labels, and says the administration's hierarchy of vaccines is meant to encourage childhood vaccine uptake.

Eyder Peralta, NPR international correspondent, on racing to the Venezuela border after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, and the obstacles keeping journalists from getting into the country.

His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government.

Some of the 2025 policies that have been implemented include cracking down on immigration and dismantling the Department of Education.

Brandon Jay and his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, created Altadena Musicians to help those who may have lost their beloved musical instruments in last year's LA wildfires.

The prime minister of Norway says President Trump cited the Nobel Prize as a reason for not pursuing a peaceful resolution on Greenland.

More than three dozen people were killed as two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain.

Delegates from Vietnam's communist party are meeting to choose leadership and chart its economic future. The current General Secretary To Lam is expected to keep his post and seek that of president.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Javier Corrales, author of a book on Hugo Chavez and a professor at Amherst College, about the legacy of Chavez's rule in Venezuela today.

Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's little evidence the drug will help.

As Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba collapse, Mexico has stepped up as the island's main supplier — though its support may be temporary under Washington's pressure.

ChatGPT Health is OpenAI's foray into medicine, and so far, it gets high marks from both a cancer patient and a leading doctor. But there are worries it could be misused.