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Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, serving more than 90 million travelers last year. But it faces one problem shared by airports across the country: finding capable people to manage its air traffic. A new program could help solve the problem.

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, serving more than 90 million travelers last year. But it faces one problem shared by airports across the country: finding capable people to manage its air traffic. A new program could help solve the problem.

The comedy duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong became the standard bearers of pot humor in the 1970s. They're now the subjects of the documentary "Cheech & Chong's Last Movie."

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on the success of the girl group and rising rock star's new albums.

Moreno made her mark in musicals like Singin' in the Rain and The King and I before winning an Oscar for her unforgettable turn as Anita in West Side Story. Her new memoir tells the story of how a girl born in Puerto Rico and raised in Harlem made it all the way to Hollywood.

It turns out that turning left at intersections is dangerous. So, two New York City councilmen have asked Google to map routes that cut down on left turns in the Big Apple.

Why and where the country shifted right in the 2024 election. And, the Justice Department wants Google Chrome on the auction block.

These undiagnosed infections could be a major factor in the rapid transmission of the omicron variant, the researchers said.

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis says. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game." DeCurtis' new book is Lou Reed: A Life.

Harris and Trump square off. Inflation drops while prices rise.

In the final hours before the 2024 election season closes, the presidential campaigns are reaching out to voters in key swing states including North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.

For the first time this year, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge handed the mic over to fourth graders. Here's two of our judges' favorite entries.

John Demers looks back on his latest stretch in the Justice Department in an exclusive interview with NPR. Cyber threats from Russia and China will remain a big problem, he warns.

Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the warning signs they watch for before the bubble bursts.

Even a real poetry lover might find a 1,132-page anthology a bit daunting. But The Oxford Book of American Poetry is less for heavy lifting and more for browsing, in pursuit of old and new poetic pals.

A new investigation reveals new findings about a case that stirred a media and police frenzy, as well as the subsequent backlash.

Today, you’ll hear about Florida’s first wildlife overpass that lets panthers, bears and gators - oh my - cross I-4. You’ll also get some ideas on how to spend the next couple nights, and hear some news to start your week.

Ahead of the March primary, local elections officials in Texas are starting to deal with the effects of a new GOP-backed voting law.

The two veteran rappers read as comic inversions of one another on their new albums, by turns renewed and restrained by the instincts that defined them at the start of their careers.

The Haitian New Year's Day tradition of soup joumou or pumpkin soup is said to date back to January 1, 1804, the day Haitian slave and revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence from its French colonizers.

The 'Write In Biden' effort serves as a workaround for the DNC's new primary calendar so that N.H. can keep its first-in-the-nation primary, while still giving Biden a strong showing in the election.

NPR Music's All Songs Considered counts down the top songs of 2022.

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research on the institutional roots of national wealth and poverty. They will split the prize money of 11 million Swedish krona or about $1.058 million.

When she worked at the U.N., Summer Brennan wore high heels almost every day — even when they made her fall. Her new book High Heel is an exploration of modern womanhood through the history of heels.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with author Stephenie Meyer about the appeal of her Twilight books and her new novel, which reassigns the genders of the original characters.