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The National frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser wrote the lyrics, and twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner scored the movie.

NPR's Mia Venkat explains what the internet was obsessed with this week.

After 3,600 stories and countless hours of reading, here's the moment we've all been waiting for: It's time to announce the winner of Round 2 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest.

When medical bills started rolling in, a Melbourne teacher’s aide wondered why her insurance suddenly wasn’t covering them. The answer? She owed a balance of 5 cents, so her insurer canceled her policy.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Antonia Cereijido and M.G. Lord about their new podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes, based on their archival tape of interviews with major players in the doll's creation.

Sharon Preston-Folta says the jazz icon couldn't acknowledge her publicly, but says Armstrong “loved her the best way he could.” She opens up about their complex relationship in a new documentary.

Eva Victor wrote, directed and stars in this tender film about a woman trying to make sense of life after sexual assault. Although very much a drama, Sorry, Baby showcases Victor's comic smarts.

Republican voters — even those who maintain Donald Trump was a great president — are not marching in lockstep with him. Many are instead bucking his preferred GOP candidates.

Wanted: A million people willing to share their DNA and 10 years of health habits, big and small, for science.

TPS holders make up 15% of noncitizen healthcare workers. Losing their work authorization could deepen staffing shortages across the U.S. healthcare sector.

Zadie Smith returns to old haunts in her latest novel, but it is a sobering homecoming. Where her first novel, White Teeth, was a wild ride into the diverse, vibrant rhythms of a city in transition, NW is a complex exploration of where the inhabitants of that world have landed.

Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip have killed 1,005 Palestinians since a ceasefire was reached between Israel and the militant group Hamas last October, according to Gaza Health Ministry.

Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama returned to sharp rhetoric at Thursday's debate in Austin, Texas. And Sen. John McCain is still simmering over a New York Times story alleging improper behavior with a lobbyist.

Attorneys Douglas Cox and Sarah Havens take up the cases of 11 detainees from Yemen -- men who have had no contact with people outside the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay for more than three years. Gaining the trust of these men proves to be as difficult as getting to Cuba in the first place.

In 1964, President Johnson traveled to Martin County, Ky., to try to sell his "war on poverty" to the American public. What residents say they need now is steady work.

After President Trump announced he would be attending game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City, the city moved the official watch party to a park just outside NPR's bureau.

"When you don't find a meaning in your suffering, you exist to suffer. When you find the meaning in your suffering, you get to live your life."

It's banned book week. Even though we wish it wasn't.

In Connecticut, formerly incarcerated people are building bookshelves and filling them with books for donation to prisons. They say reading helped them get through their own sentences.

Decades after the 1963 March on Washington, thousands again gathered in the nation's capital to declare that Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy was in jeopardy amid fresh civil rights struggles.

For the fifth week in a row, Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the best-selling album in the country. Post Malone and Wallen's "I Had Some Help" repeated as the top song.

NATO leaders convene in The Hague to boost defense spending, against a backdrop of the Ukraine war and the attack by the U.S. over the weekend on nuclear facilities in Iran.

England's Jude Bellingham has done it again. Scoring both of his team's goals in a thrilling quarterfinal against Norway that needed extra time. It was the first World Cup meeting between the two.

For people who haven't filed their taxes yet, there's an army of volunteers around the country who are ready to help.

If your doctor prescribes a GLP-1 medication for weight loss but your insurance won't cover it, you have options.