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Get ready for a Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature. GOP candidates face difficult positions addressing Trump's legal woes. NPR reveals flaws in U.S. claims about Syrian casualties in a 2019 raid.

Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee will question Attorney General nominee Eric Holder at his confirmation hearing Thursday. Holder has strong support in the Senate, but some Republicans on the panel say they will ask him about aspects of his private legal practice and some of his decisions while serving as deputy and acting attorney general under President Clinton.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida. Here are some ways climate change is reshaping tropical cyclones like it

Cathy Davidson is a historian of technology who finds the seeds of necessary innovation in unexpected places, like her home institution, the City University of New York.

The country has been gripped by mass demonstrations and planned union strikes over inequality, prompting President Sebastián Piñera to offer economic reforms.

House Republicans tapped Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson as their nominee for speaker. A vote on Wednesday will determine if the fourth time to elect a nominee as speaker will be the charm.

Earnest Jackson, the sole star of Planet Money's record label, died recently at 75. We look back at his life and the long lost song he recorded in the 1970s about inflation.

Reddit's IPO will be the first time since 2019 that a social media company has premiered on the stock market.

Donald Trump owes legal penalties totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in two civil cases recently decided in New York, raising questions about how he'll pay the amount.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice authorized the restoration of the social media platform's service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document.

Florida residents are returning to their Gulf Coast homes after evacuating for Hurricane Milton. Traffic clogged Interstate 75 and other major routes to the coast Friday as people who fled hundreds of miles to escape the storm made long, slow trips back.

A 93-year-old grandmother and her 42-year-old grandson just finished a tour of all 63 U.S. national parks. They became internet celebrities along the way.

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.

One month after a devastating earthquake rocked Myanmar, officials report about 3,800 deaths but many people say they are still waiting for news of their missing loved ones.

Casey Ellison, CEO of Ellison Development, noted the uniqueness of showcasing a “very complete,” nearly 80-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton outside of a museum.

San Francisco's new mayor, Daniel Lurie, has never held public office before. What does his win indicate about how voters are feeling about homelessness and other big issues the city is facing?

NPR's Juana Summers talks with journalist Mark Dent, who wrote a story called "Is Domino's Pizza Inflation Proof?"

NPR looks at grocery inflation and politics in Pittsburgh, a focus of both major presidential campaigns in their quest to woo voters in must-win Pennsylvania.

The DOJ released tens of thousands of new documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Guard must stay out of Chicago.

A Tallahassee-area prosecutor says there is insufficient evidence to prove that former state Senator Jack Latvala traded sexual favors in order to help…

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the most widely used school-based drug education program in the nation, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, known as DARE. DARE is a "just say no" curriculum taught in middle schools by police officers. Critics of the program say the DARE approach is too limited to be effective, especially with children who are likely to use drugs. Research released Monday by the US Department of Education confirms the program does not change kids' attitudes and behavior in the long term. But DARE is popular with schools and with Clinton's top drug advisors, who say it should continue to receive federal suppport.

Hidilyn Diaz set a record Monday, winning the Philippines' first gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The country had been trying to reach the podium's top spot for nearly 100 years.

When the Intelligence Identities Protection Act was written, its authors were hardly picturing its use to prosecute top officials in the White House. But the current grand jury has been considering that possibility in the case of CIA operative Valerie Plame. To understand how this came about, a look back to the events of 2002, when the administration was building its case for invading Iraq.

Five must-hear songs, including a Belgian artist with more than 180 million YouTube views, a wry outsider's take on "sweet France" and an earworm from American Top 40 rooted in the Balkans.

While filming in South Africa, Tom Cruise thanked his fans for making Top Gun: Maverick a box office hit as he jumped out of an aircraft. He is shooting the new Mission Impossible movie.