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Missouri and Arizona are two of the latest states to get enough signatures to add abortion rights to ballots in the November elections for voters. Plus, ManhattAnt, a mysterious ant, takes over NYC.

The NPR Music team rounds up the best new music this week, including Laurie Anderson and the Florida rapper Doechii.

In the Barbershop, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Washington Post's Kevin Blackistone, The Nation's Dave Zirin, and USA Today's Christine Brennan about the biggest stories in sports in 2018.

The federal government is currently doing more than ten times the enforcement of existing child labor law compared to Florida, even though Florida law is currently more strict than the federal government. Now, some lawmakers want to weaken Florida child labor law.

Florida’s House and Senate are poised to pass the strongest consumer protections in state history for a problem-plagued home loan program touted to help homeowners pay for energy efficiency projects.

Taylor Swift's relationship with the Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce has boosted NFL ratings all season, meaning this year's Super Bowl could be the biggest yet. Here's why.

With less than a month until the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, former President Trump is narrowing down his options as he chooses a 2024 running mate.

Former President Jimmy Carter's work on energy efficiency and renewable energy were criticized, but it laid the groundwork for the country to address climate change now.

Street fentanyl has long been viewed as unstoppable. Now many experts say the supply of the deadly synthetic opioid is suddenly drying up in many parts of the U.S. and fatal overdoses are dropping.

Notre Dame and Ohio State University are set to tangle Monday in the college football national championship game. The expanded playoffs have led to some surprising results leading up to this unexpected final.

2023 began on a tough note for Russian President Putin, with his war in Ukraine stagnating and criticism from the head of the Wagner group. Now, that man is dead and Ukraine may be running out of aid.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cal Newport, author and computer science professor at Georgetown, about AI's limitations and if progress within the industry has stalled.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

Of all the folk songsters from the 1960s, Mitchell has proven to have the strongest influence on jazz singers. Joni's Jazz features her collaborations with stars like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

Taylor Swift turned masters ownership from a behind-the-scenes conversation into a mainstream debate about artist autonomy. But how has that fight influenced other artists in the music industry?

Experts say Biden's focus on addiction health care saved tens of thousands of lives and slowed fentanyl smuggling. Trump scrapped Biden's approach in favor of military strikes.

Comments about diversity in superhero comics made last week by a Marvel executive unleashed an online firestorm. But heroes who look more like the growing comics readership are here to stay.

NPR correspondents recap how funding cuts, layoffs and leadership and policy changes in the second Trump administration are affecting the Departments of Defense, State and Health and Human Services.

Sen. Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, is a budding bipartisan dealmaker. Her latest assignment: helping negotiate changes to immigration enforcement tactics.

The U.S. has evacuated diplomats in the Middle East and closed several embassies as war in Iran intensifies. And, what to expect from the Senate races in the North Carolina and Texas primary elections.

The Trump administration urges schools to reopen in the fall. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rules say international students can't stay in the U.S. if their schools are entirely online.

Boeing says a deal to buy fuselage-maker Spirit AeroSystems will help it control quality and safety. But a whistleblower who worked at Spirit for over a decade warns its problems won't be easy to fix.

New internal documents reveal that TikTok has known about the app's potential dangers to teenagers and pre-teens.

At the height of the housing boom, condominium towers popped up on the Miami skyline faster than you'd believe. Once the market crashed, those towers sat vacant. Now, led by foreign buyers, condos are selling again as developers try new, more stringent financing rules.

A key measure of the economy's health showed a dramatic pickup, which President Trump called "amazing." But some analysts doubt the higher growth rate will last.