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You might have heard that double-frying food gives you a thicker, crunchier, more soul-completing crust. Here's why it works.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to a close friend of Philando Castile, Danny Givens. Philando Castile was fatally shot Wednesday night by police during a traffic stop in a St. Paul, Minn., suburb.

NPR's Invisibilia podcast tells the story of a woman who participated in an experiment that gave her a whole new frame of reference and allowed her to see the world in a different way.

Police in Toronto have located the vehicle and arrested the suspected driver after a van attack Monday left 10 people dead and 15 others injured.

Boeing says it's close to finishing a software update for its troubled 737 Max aircraft. This comes as the company is trying to win back public and government support of the grounded fleet.

Democratic presidential candidates are urging strong action to reduce gun violence. But researchers say many of the proposals they're backing would do little to reduce such violence.

At least 117 people in 34 states have gotten sick from salmonella infections. U.S. health officials believe two brands of cantaloupe — and dozens of fruit cups and medleys — may have been the cause.

It seems attacks are happening at a more furious pace than ever before. Georgetown Security Studies professor Daniel Byman tells Steve Inskeep that there were many more incidents in the '70s and '80s.

One common decongestant, phenylephrine, was found ineffective this fall. Doctors are skeptical about the rest of the over-the-counter cold cures lineup.

With Congress increasingly polarized, there are growing calls for reformed voting processes.

A special legislative session begins in Georgia to redraw the state's political maps after a federal judge ruled that the current district lines illegally dilute the power of Black voters.

Many who reach the U.S.-Mexico border go to tortuous lengths to reach American soil. This is a taxing process, on both a personal and economic level, leaving thousands of migrants, who are already escaping desperate conditions, unable to support themselves.

A multinational security force is expected to arrive in 2024 following a vote last month at the UN Security Council. But some in South Florida's Haitian community point to the failures of previous peacekeeping missions in the country, and fear for their families back home.

Jason Mariner, who lost a special election in January 2022 to replace incumbent Rep. Alcee Hastings, died of a fentanyl and cocaine overdose after relapsing into using drugs.

The bottleneck caused by states’ reevaluation of Medicaid enrollees has swept up low-income families that rely on other safety-net services.

The Point Distillery in New Port Richey landed a contract to produce Crossfire Hurricane, the Rolling Stones’ first-ever spirit. It will carry out the entire rum bottling process before the product is packed into display cases and shipped to distributors.

Physical therapists left the field en masse during the pandemic, even as demand skyrocketed. While universities try to boost training programs, patients seeking relief from debilitating pain are left to wait.

After completing an approved program, music therapists are part of the hospital’s health care team working in the pediatric, cancer and blood disorder departments.

"Some of engineering’s mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist."

Jerry Dakin and his family have been in the dairy business for decades. He says he plans to stay nearby and continue working in agriculture and the environment.

Plaintiffs are trying to fend off an attempt to end a lawsuit that challenges the way a 2018 constitutional amendment aimed at restoring felons’ voting rights has been carried out.

Most of the dozens of hostages freed under the deal with Hamas have remained in hospitals since their release as they begin the process of adjusting to the lives they led before they were taken.

Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly. Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones. Originally broadcast Sept. 21, 2023.

South Florida could get more flood protection from the federal government sooner than expected.

Scientists say two separate brain circuits control how much salt we consume.