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The crew of four reflected on the mission beneath the Space Shuttle Atlantis, which flew them on the 12-day mission.

The Department of Energy announced a new effort to protect the country’s energy sector from cyber attacks.

It's a sign the three Northeastern states are changing how they manage the COVID-19 pandemic as cases from the omicron surge continue to drop.

A reauthorization of the landmark 1994 law is included in an annual federal spending package moving through Congress.

NPr's Ann Cooper reports that the New U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan (KOH-fee AN-nan) took his promises of reform to Capitol Hill today, trying to convince skeptical members of Congress that the United Nations is still a vital investment. The U-S has failed to pay over a billion dollars that it owes to the U-N, partly because of intense congressional criticism of U-N management. In a meeting with Annan today, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that he believed problems with the U-N could be worked out, and made it clear that Congress does NOT want to shut the world body of diplomats down.

Big banks are facing a new reality in Washington: Democrats control all levers of power and they are not shy about their intentions to ratchet up pressure on the sector.

Citing the cost of settling probes into tainted stock research, Citigroup announces a $1.5 billion charge against earnings. Last week, Citigroup agreed to pay $400 million in penalties to settle conflict-of-interest charges. NPR's Chris Arnold reports that Citigroup still faces lawsuits from individual investors.

Another 3.2 million people filed for benefits, bringing the total number of jobs lost during the pandemic to 33.5 million. The government is expected to report a huge jump in unemployment Friday.

Bob Kerrey, a decorated war hero and former U.S. senator, has written a book about his experiences in Vietnam, including the raid he led on a village in which more than a dozen women and children were killed. Kerrey discusses the incident and his memoir, When I Was a Young Man, with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards. Read an excerpt of the book and hear an extended version of the interview online. (7:09) {STATIONS:} Kerrey's book, "When I Was a Young Man," is published by Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0151004749.

El Florida Policy Institute dice que los vales le costaron al estado $4 billones este año escolar.

NPR's John Ydstie talks with Phil Reed, senior consumer editor at Edmunds.com, to find out how to get the best deal when buying a car.

Book critic David Kipen has a new crush: It's on a book called Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut by former Amazon.com worker and author James Marcus.

See average hourly wages and how many jobs have been lost (or gained) in health care, manufacturing and other big industries.

When multiple sclerosis patient Meesha Cook suffers a seizure, she doesn’t get to decide where she’ll go for treatment. If the Brevard County resident...

Buckhorn, quien dirigió la ciudad de 2011 a 2019, no ha ocultado su deseo de regresar al ayuntamiento. Se une a un grupo de 10 aspirantes que compiten para reemplazar a Jane Castor, cuyo segundo mandato termina en 2027.

Hear (and download) profoundly moving performances of music by Basinski, Marshall, Golijov and Schnittke — met by a deeply reflective and attentive audience.

Raised in lily-white Cape Cod, Mass. while one of the few persons of color around, Esperanza found their voice the old-fashioned way: by searching for it.

NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin answers your questions. This week: What would happen in case of a dreaded tie vote in the Electoral College.

Jason Owens, the head of a busy Border Patrol sector in Del Rio, Texas, will lead the agency, the Biden administration announced. His predecessor is retiring at the end of the month.

The state lost nearly 1.18 million non-agricultural jobs from February to April as the pandemic hit, but it has gained back 631,600, according to the Department of Economic Opportunity.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson analyzes the sexy new TV spots for Overstock.com. It all comes down to one thing: the undeniably sexy actress who says "it's all about the 'O.'"

Romi Lassally's new book gathers together women's confessions of "mommy misdemeanors" — and offers an alternative viewpoint to the idealized notion of how blissful motherhood is supposed to be.

A 2007 law requires new and remodeled federal buildings to stop using fossil fuels by 2030. But implementation stalled and gas utilities want to repeal that section.

As more Americans contemplate leaving booze behind, kava has become an alternative to drinking by offering similar effects without the consequences.

Five years after the killing of George Floyd, NPR's Michel Martin visits the Minneapolis intersection that has become a memorial to his life: George Perry Floyd Square.