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The 2025 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt.

Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in the country, after unsuccessfully challenging their ballots in 2024.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been sentenced to 28 years in prison on convictions of extortion, bribery, racketeering and tax crimes. The sentence, far more than Kilpatrick's defense wanted, is meant to send a message about how government should work according to the judge.

This year's NBA season may never get underway. The players have rejected the owners' latest offer. The main sticking point: revenue sharing.

The University of South Florida College Republicans and the Pinellas County Young Republicans filed a request for a three-judge panel to hear their lawsuit.

Despite a constant flow of economic setbacks at home and abroad, the U.S. economy has been growing. But it hasn't been growing swiftly or adding many jobs. Steve Inskeep talks with David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal, and Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist, about how the U.S. will generate economic growth in the future.

Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior explosives expert from Hezbollah, has been held as an enemy combatant since he was captured by American troops five years ago. But once U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq, authorities face a choice about the future of enemy combatants: prosecute them, release them or send them home.

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said.

Economists say that what happens in Vegas matters nationally because it often reflects broader trends on consumer confidence and the overall health of the U.S. economy.

Republicans are able to choose the next speaker because of their majority in the House, where they hold 85 of the 120 seats.

While President Trump is pushing to win the prize, Nobel watchers think his prospects look pretty grim.

Ryan Routh, the man accused in the attempted assassination of then-GOP presidential candidate Trump, goes on trial Monday with the start of jury selection. Opening statements are planned for Thursday.

Temperatures in Europe are increasing at twice the average global rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps disappear, Europe's biggest rivers are losing a crucial source of their summer water flow.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author Elizabeth Gilbert opens up about trying to understand that she wasn't a bad person.

We discuss former FBI Director James Comey's indictment and the political fallout from a possible government shutdown starting next week.

Mormon Women for Ethical Government was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that could overturn Utah's Republican-leaning map for U.S. House seats. That could matter in next year's elections.

Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She also answers the question: Is it kosher to receive an organ donation from a pig?

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown in a new video for TSA security checkpoints. Two of South Florida's airports are not playing the video for waiting passengers.

A new law in California bans ICE agents -- and most law enforcement officers -- from wearing masks to hide their identities. But the Trump administration says they don't have to comply.

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

Reporter Rebecca Hersher spent 10 weeks in Greenland this winter trying to understand why the country has the highest known suicide rate. She tells Rachel Martin it's not because of the dark and cold.

Rachel Martin talks with Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, about her efforts in trying to end sex trafficking for the last decade, an extension of her humanitarian work at the McCain Institute.

Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors in New York. Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

She was 21-year-old Maureen L. Minor Rowan of Tampa, a mother of two young children. As for her killer, the Sumter County Sheriff's Office says her estranged husband, now dead, is a "person of interest."

We have the latest on the Olympic Games in South Korea.