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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Miguel Macias about Spain winning the European soccer championship and what this means for the country and soccer.

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon took one look at Wish I Was Here, the new film by Zach Braff, and was immediately inspired to write this song.

Matthew Diffee contributes regularly to the cartoonists' bible, The New Yorker. But that magazine gets more than 500 submissions a week — and publishes only 20 cartoons in each issue. Diffee's new book, featuring his work and that of other New Yorker regulars, is The Rejection Collection, Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap.

Kingsley Burnett planned to vacation in Australia, where he would take a cruise from Sydney harbor. He says he figured something was off when he saw snow-capped mountains out of the airplane window.

Hispanic Heritage Month first began under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Mexico-born chef Pati Jinich spent years tracking down a recipe for the popular but elusive Piggy Cookies. Now the cinnamon-spiced treats are a staple in her house.

David Strathairn and the Sideways star are reenacting the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the play The Rivalry. Though the seven-part face-off occurred 150 years ago, when appearances were less important than eloquence, the actors say some things haven't changed.

A heat wave that's been affecting Europe has caused dangerous infrastructure damage in Britain. The country's transportation sector has seen the worst of it.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to drop his appeal of a recent court ruling regarding Amendment 4, which...

The video-sharing Web site YouTube.com has changed the way some people see the Internet. But it's also changing how people hear vintage artists, from the late Wilson Pickett to the up-and-coming Arctic Monkeys.

Jamie Dimon is still the head of the country's largest bank. Just days after he revealed JPMorgan Chase lost nearly$2.5 billion because of bad trades,…

Trotter, aka Black Thought, reflects on his childhood in Philly, his decades-long friendship with Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and his life as a musician. Trotter's new memoir is The Upcycled Self.

The field is smaller and stakes are higher at tonight's fourth GOP primary debate. As death and injuries mount, safety experts call for more speed intelligence technology in cars.

Florida could achieve net zero by 2050 while growing the economy, creating jobs, and reducing the costs of energy and transportation for consumers, according to the report.

The Obama administration says China is trading unfairly in some elements that are critical to the manufacture of cellphones, hybrid car batteries and other products.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Gregory Daco, chief economist at Ernst and Young and about Monday's market sell off and what that could mean for the global economy.

Florida State University’s medical school has received a warning from the organization responsible for accrediting medical schools across the United...

The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, the U.S. 7th Fleet said. It comes at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.

House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The measure passed by a single vote.

Sometimes history lies hidden just around the corner. Just south of Washington, D.C., is a graveyard with more than 100 wooden ships that date to World War I — the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay.

On the 40th anniversary of the desegregation of Ole Miss, NPR presents a series of stories examining the events of that time, what has become of the people involved, and the campus today. For All Things Considered, NPR's David Molpus and Cheryl Corley talk with current Ole Miss students, professors and administrators.

About half those injured in the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting were children. With such incidents continuing to happen, some parents now think twice about bringing kids to big, crowded events.

"The reality is that Eric Garner died at the hands of a police force and a criminal justice system that were designed entirely by white people, for the most part," says journalist Matt Taibbi.

Camps in Syria have become overcrowded in the northwest of the country after the February 6 earthquake. NPR talks to Dr. Mego Terzian of Doctors without Borders about his assessment of the situation.