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Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman are joining calls for a slowdown amid fears the AI industry is racing toward building technology that humans can't control.

Photographer Andres Gonzalez has spent the past five years documenting the aftermath of mass shootings in American schools. He speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about how communities process trauma and the patterns of responses to violent acts.

Oates grew up on a farm in upstate New York. In The Lost Landscape, she describes how her parents, her grandmother, and her school experiences made her into the writer she is today.

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith says efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages. Her new book is Fat Talk.

After weeks of wrangling, the GOP will send a health care bill to a vote Thursday. Also, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order relaxing political restrictions on religious groups.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has pledged $100 million of support for people in Ukraine as they prepare for winter.

Dozens more far-right rallies are planned across the United Kingdom on Wednesday, as police struggle to contain racist mob violence targeting immigrants, Muslims and people of color.

Former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are barnstorming key swing states. Meanwhile, his surrogates are in Chicago meeting with reporters on his behalf.

People in the Southeast are recovering from Hurricane Helene which brought death and destruction to the Southeast this week.

Can the recent Biden’s executive order restricting asylum have a significant long-term impact in reducing the number of illegal crossings in the U.S. Southern border? We’re asking analysts and people following immigration trends. Jasmine Garsd.

Federal prosecutors are charging New York Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and fraud. Adams is alleged to have accepted bribes from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official.

The Lone Star State is home to more than a million horses. Some Texans have begun adding to their herds in rather unusual ways: by cloning their champion horses.

The Los Angeles-area Huntington Museum and London's National Gallery are swapping two paintings: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy for Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.

After years of fighting insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has shifted its focus to technologically-advanced opponents, especially China. The Marine Corps is taking the lead.

Nearly half of the water drawn from the Colorado River goes to feed for beef and dairy cows. Researchers say modest changes in American diets could help farmers use less water — and help the climate.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are cracking down on deceitful marketing strategies during open enrollment. Here are tips on how to avoid getting scammed.

U.S. Senate candidates in Georgia head to a December runoff. Democrats avoided a "red wave" in the midterm elections. Russia says it's withdrawing from a key port city, but Ukraine is skeptical.

Island officials will have discretion to spend the federal money as they see fit. But some worry the government's plans will leave local communities behind.

Big companies such as Amazon and Google have recently announced layoffs. On Wall Street, getting cut is always acknowledged as an ever-lurking prospect — but it still stings when it happens.

The Food and Drug Administration's authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine could come in a day or two, a member of an FDA expert panel says. But he says it may be late 2021 before normalcy returns.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Amanda Mull, a staff writer for The Atlantic, about what we lose when we no longer have relationships with the peripheral people in our lives due to the pandemic.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Facebook data scientist Roddy Lindsay, who recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times about ways to regulate the media giant's algorithms.

Steve Inskeep speaks with James Dobbins, a former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo, about U.S. military assistance to opposition movements in other countries. So far, the Obama administration is only providing Syrian rebels with medical and food supplies. Dobbins is the director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Thomas de Waal of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about Russian-organized annexation votes that Ukraine's allies say violate international law.

Maui's wildfires destroyed some of the only low-income housing in one of the most expensive markets in the U.S. Working class residents wonder if there will be place for them to live long term.