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Local and federal officials in LA say recovery from January's deadly wildfires is on pace to be the fastest in modern California history. Scientists worry that toxic debris isn't getting cleared.

Anand Giridharadas spent time with tech entrepreneurs and affluent elites who want to change the world. But in a new book, he writes that their market-based mantras only maintain inequalities.

Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch calls it a "crushing blow" and says in an internal memo to employees of Vogue, New Yorker and Vanity Fair among others to use their journalism to respond to the moment.

Mark Leyner manages to make run-on sentences, erotic digressions and manic depression engaging in his autobiographical novel, Gone with the Mind.

Kwame Alexander's new book is a collection of original poems written in the style of 20 famous poets. The aim is to introduce kids to great poetry — and encourage them to write poems of their own.

Playwright Tarell McCraney and filmmaker Barry Jenkins drew on their own childhood experiences in making Moonlight, a film about a boy growing up in a Miami housing project.

NPR's Books We Love is a roundup of our staff's favorite reads this year. Today we look at some of our favorite, more obscure, lesser-known picks from this year's Books We Love.

Morning Edition spoke to more than 40 voters in two key districts in Ohio and Pennsylvania and found many aren't necessarily approaching issues as their parties would prefer. Here are four takeaways.

President Trump's mission to fight renewable wind energy comes at a time of rising energy costs.

Back in June, state officials decided to allow bear hunting in Florida for the first time in 20 years. The season will open on Oct. 24, and could last for…

The president met with survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre as the nation pauses to mark the anniversary of an attack that remains one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

Airbnb says Floridians who rented out their homes to visitors earned collectively $273 million in 2016.Airbnb said Tuesday that around 1.5 million people…

Learning to save and invest is more accessible than ever thanks to social media. But there are potential pitfalls, say personal finance experts — including influencers themselves.

As a Black TV critic who loves Westerns, Eric Deggans really wanted to like this show. But he found the first four episodes were focused on being a Modern Western Epic, at the expense of Reeves' story

FAFSA applications have been down during the pandemic, and there have been some recent changes to the form. This year's applications open Oct. 1.

MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard chronicles the FBI's campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., which included sending King a letter suggesting that he kill himself.

This summer, Kenyan artists came to Washington, D.C., for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Some of them make their living by turning trash into sculptures, jewelry and igloos.

Author Mark Helprin's latest novel is a sprawling tale of love, honor and danger in the years just after World War II. Returned soldier Harry Copeland spots a mysterious woman in white on the Staten Island Ferry. She turns out to be an heiress with Broadway dreams and a complicated past that threatens their growing love.

The rooftop solar business is a big source of consumer complaints. The industry is working to repair its reputation. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

Your health insurance plan might not cover items such as wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, boots and braces. The cost is small compared with many medical bills, but adds up if you pay out-of-pocket.

Congestion pricing is coming to New York City. NPR's Michel Martin asks public transit advocate Danny Pearlstein about how the program might work.

These days, party nominating conventions are events for the media as much as for the delegates. The McCain campaign took its turn carefully crafting its image visually and rhetorically before a captive media crowd this week. Did the GOP accomplish what it set out to achieve in St. Paul?

The defense team for Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three small children, argues her actions were the result of severe postpartum psychosis.

It was banned because a scene shows a map with the "nine dash line." The line of dashes depicts China's claim to own the South China Sea. Vietnam and others reject it and the U.S. says it's unlawful.