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It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

There was one overwhelming favorite album that topped this year's All Songs Considered listener poll, and it wasn't even close.

NCAA spending per Division I and national championship participants was $4,285 for men and $2,588 for women in the 2018-19 season. The gap is even larger for single-gender sports, the report shows.

“I’ve been prolife my whole life,” Simpson said during a recent press conference. He called a measure to ban most abortions after 15 weeks a “very good bill,” but he said he also thinks it’s important to stop unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place.

The painting, titled The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884, was stolen early Monday morning from the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam. Police say the thieves smashed a glass entrance.

Sports columnist Geoff Calkins provides an Olympic update and talks about relative unknowns who are pushing some very big names off the Olympic stage in Turin.

The hope is that they can develop a vaccine to prevent HIV-negative people from getting infected.

One of the finest British actors of her generation, Jackson won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Awards, and also served as a member of Parliament for decades.

Green steel is manufactured from hydrogen made from renewable energy.

The Food and Drug Administration is saying meat and milk from cloned cows are as safe as they are traditional. But how do they taste and will they turn us into mutated creatures?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with Palestinian leaders, pushing ahead with preparations for a November peace conference in the U.S.

President Bush wraps up what might be his last trip to Europe as president of the United States. Don Gonyea, who's traveling with the president, talks about the trip.

The outbreak of the rare Marburg hemorrhagic fever continues in Angola, and has claimed the lives of more than 200 people. We get an update on the outbreak and talk with one of the people leading the relief effort.

University of California academic workers have been on strike for an unprecedented five weeks.

In Juarez, Mexico, there are still thousands of asylum seekers waiting to cross.

The United States is all in on Africa's future. That's what President Biden pledged this week.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more than 300,000 accountants and auditors in the U.S. have left their jobs in the past two years.

In the months since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian troops have had to adapt their weapons and fighting to the terrain of different regions.

Former President Trump announced his new White House campaign Tuesday night at his Mar-a-Lago club and home in Palm Beach, Fla.

This version of the game showed just how fun baseball can be.

Bank of America will buy the ailing brokerage house Merrill Lynch for $50 billion. We examine whether Bank of America is overextending itself.

In these days of high gas prices, how far will $100 of gas get you on a road trip? In South Florida, one family goes from Miami to Sanibel Island on the Gulf of Mexico... and back.

As Latino Heritage month comes to an end we focus on that community's literary works. Books by Latino authors are providing a window into a culture that's writing a new chapter in America's history.

First Bear Stearns, then Lehman Brothers; the woolly mammoths of the banking industry have been tumbling one by one. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are still standing, but for how long?

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to fimmaker Iram Parveen Bilal about her new movie, set in a Pakistani Muslim community in Chicago.