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Both the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq closed at record highs on Friday, as investors shrugged off trade tensions and recent fighting in the Middle East.

Several of the key facts of the Jan. 6 insurrection are indisputable. And yet millions on the right do dispute them. Here's a look at how that happened.

Bob Dylan says that being labeled the voice of his generation actually got in the way of what he really wanted to do: write songs and play them. Hear his interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

A major hub for the U.S. military is turned over to Afghan forces, effectively ending U.S. operations in Afghanistan.

Despite indictment, ex-President Trump spent the weekend campaigning. Ukraine's counteroffensive has begun. Scotland's ex-first minister is arrested in a probe of Scottish National Party's finances.

The White House wants to fight climate change in ways that also remove economic and racial disparities. The city of Cleveland has a plan that describes what that might mean.

Intelligence officials look at the classified materials found at Mar-a-Lago. NASA will launch a rocket to the moon. And, more than 1,000 people have died from flooding in Pakistan.

The WTO predicts a sharp slowdown in global trade. Ukrainian forces are taking back territory that had been captured by Russia. A new NPR poll shows President Biden's approval rating is up.

VP Harris is expected to announce her running mate within the next day. Fears grow of a widening war in the Middle East. The second week of the Olympic Games in Paris is off to a fast start.

Chef Jay Fai cooks everything herself over two blazing charcoal fires in the alley, using only the highest-quality ingredients to serve customers who are willing to wait several hours to nab a table.

Los Angeles Times CEO and Publisher Ross Levinsohn has been a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits; female colleagues have repeatedly challenged his conduct in the workplace at various firms.

Ellsberg died June 16 at age 92. We listen back to a 2017 interview with him, and speak with New York Times correspondent Charlie Savage about Ellsberg's most recent document leak, at age 90.

Twenty-three years after a brazen theft, the mystery still divides a tiny sect known as the Samaritans. Here's the story of the international hunt to bring the manuscripts home.

Coco Gauff will face No. 10 Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic on Thursday. The unseeded Ben Shelton will next meet 23-time major champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia.

Weight was one of several eye-popping numbers for the 6-foot-6 prospect at his University of Florida pro day. Gators coach Billy Napier calls the Hillsborough County native "a unicorn.”

Vice President Harris gave her first interview since entering the presidential race. Here's what she had to say. And, former President Donald Trump voices support for reproductive rights.

NPR Ed is celebrating 50 Great Teachers. Today: The story of a young algebra teacher in Oklahoma oil country, who has taken an unorthodox approach to classroom math.

Israel's Security Cabinet approved a plan to take over Gaza City despite demands by families of hostages and mounting international calls for Israel to end the war.

Michel Martin asks former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the government's move to separate Google from its Chrome browser and the future of artificial intelligence as envisioned in the book "Genesis."

China’s leaders are meeting in Beijing, and have a fresh chance to make some policy adjustments to perk up the economy.

Mitt Romney may have lost the election, but the tax policy he floated is sticking with congressional Republicans. Rather than raising rates, the GOP would prefer to shrink or eliminate deductions. So what would that do to the deficit — and to the middle class?

In the 1980s, a Spanish seminarian named Mother María Jimenez recognized that the job of crewing a ship could be particularly stressful and isolating....

Florida is near the bottom of the nation when it comes to teacher pay. Governor Ron DeSantis wants to change that by raising the base salary. But the...

A top executive for Juul Labs said that his company never intended its electronic cigarettes to be adopted by underage teenagers, as House lawmakers on...

Updated at 2:12 a.m. TuesdayMichael gained new strength over warm tropical waters amid fears it would swiftly intensify into a major hurricane before…