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Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.

There's a lot of anxiety about climate change shrinking Lake Powell, but it also means whitewater rapids upstream have re-emerged. Thrillseekers can now run them for the first time since the 1960s.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Caroline Nienhuis, a Swiss biologist with the Zurich Beaver Advisory Center, about a hotline established to help residents deal with a growing local beaver population.

Barred from the US, stranded in Mexico: migrants at the border have faced uncertainty and stalled asylum claims.

There's excitement and controversy swirling around the potential use of MDMA for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. On Tuesday, a panel of advisers to the FDA will evaluate the data.

A federal judge in Boston is weighing arguments from both sides in Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration. Harvard claims the government's freezing of research funds is illegal.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is confronting fresh questions about how seriously it treats AI safety. Former employees and others say the company should not be trusted with governing itself.

Climate change is driving worse weather "whiplash" in places like California, creating conditions for more intense wildfires like the devastating blazes in LA.

One of the challenging foreign policy issues President Trump will confront is Iran and its nuclear program. Specialists believe the nation is on the threshold of developing a nuclear weapon.

A new study finds that more than 90 million acres of wetlands — nearly all that exist in the Lower 48 U.S. states — may have lost federal protections after the Supreme Court's recent ruling.

A Paris court found legendary French actor Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexual assault against two women. He was handed an 18-month suspended sentence. Depardieu said he will appeal.

Fifty years after the end of the war, Hanoi says nearly 200,000 Vietnamese soldiers are still missing. Some of their families are now calling on the U.S. to help find them.

President Trump has arrived in Canada for this year's G7 summit for the leaders of advanced economies. NPR looks at what to expect.

Oscar nominations will be announced this morning. They had been delayed twice by the wildfires in Los Angeles.

President Trump signed a series of orders doubling down on law enforcement in America's cities, just ahead of hosting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

President Trump says he'll meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in person to try to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year.

South Koreans head to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new president. The election comes nearly two months after President Yoon was removed from office after he was impeached for declaring martial law.

Trump is expected to sign 10 executive actions related to immigration on his first day in office. They're the first steps in a sweeping immigration agenda for his second term.

As lawmakers debate a shutdown deal, SNAP recipients continue to face confusion and delays, with food aid caught in uncertainty and legal wrangling since funds ran out.

President Trump announced he plans to nominate Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council, weighs in.

In the hilarious Netflix series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, three women learn that a long estranged school friend has died in a suspicious manner — and take it upon themselves to investigate.

In New Orleans, the investigation continues into the background of Texas man who drove a truck down Bourbon Street killing at least 15 and injuring dozens of others.

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky denied Friday that it is a security threat after the Commerce Department banned the use of its software in the United States.

San Francisco software engineer Riley Walz's Bop Spotter runs the song identifier app Shazam to quietly listen in on what music passersby are listening to in the city's diverse Mission District.