Search results for

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Seeing his peers — and himself — struggle with returning to normal, he says he wanted to do something to help people manage their emotions, on their own terms. The result was Joy, an app built on AI that helps people struggling with sadness, grief or anger to find help in short, bite-sized prompts and tools.

Can natural science find a place for us in its vision of the cosmos? Thomas Nagel, in a new book, demands we take this question seriously. He is right to do so.

More than a dozen people are on death row and many more are on trial under Pakistan's blasphemy law. Rights groups say the law is increasingly being used to persecute minorities and to settle scores.

Moammar Gadhafi dominated the country for decades, and replacing his idiosyncratic rule is still a work in progress. It involves everything from removing exhibits at the national museum to revamping the way the oil industry is run.

Moammar Gadhafi dominated the country for decades, and replacing his idiosyncratic rule is still a work in progress. It involves everything from removing exhibits at the national museum to revamping the way the oil industry is run.

Wallace is known for his celebrity profiles, but his new memoir, Another Word For Love, is about his own life, growing up unhoused, Black and queer, and getting his start as a writer at the age of 40.

Zillow Gone Wild started in 2020 as an Instagram account devoted to eccentric property listings. The show focuses on homes that defy everyday expectations in some way.

Bryan Maclean Howard pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence-manslaughter.

The Nobel Peace laureate known for fighting poverty returns to Bangladesh Thursday to begin leading an interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India earlier this week.

Mike Johnston campaigned on ending homelessness in Denver. But tens of thousands of migrants arriving in the city in the last year is making that promise harder to keep.

Gazans are increasingly voicing their anger at Hamas' handling of the war and the heavy costs civilians have paid.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jonathan Smith, lecturer in epidemiology at Yale University, about why any "cheating" on social distancing would undermine all the work that has been done so far.

A new report by an Israeli watchdog group ties an Israeli firm to a covert online campaign intended to sway crucial Democratic lawmakers to continue backing Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

Robert Siegel talks to Peter "Pete" Hoekstra, who was chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2004-2007. He talks about the Senate Intelligence Committee's so-called torture report and talks about what he knew of the offenses at the time, and what he thinks of the report today.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers about her new book Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.

Israel says it ended the two-month ceasefire when it launched Tuesday's airstrikes in Gaza which killed more than 400 people and injured hundreds more.

Among those targeted were New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump's pick to serve as ambassador to the United Nations, and Matt Gaetz, Trump's initial pick to serve as attorney general.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Benjamin Chavis Jr., one of the organizers of the Million Man March in 1995, and a consultant for the anniversary march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

The mercurial Apple co-founder helped shape the world and our daily lives. Still, director Danny Boyle says, while "he's made some of the most beautiful things imaginable, he is himself poorly made."

For Latin American immigrants and African refugees, their new lives in the U.S. were a daily struggle because of the language barrier and lack of resources. Milton is turning those obstacles into matters of life and death.

Boricuas de Corazón brinda ayuda humanitaria en español, superando barreras culturales y del idioma para la comunidad inmigrante.

A member of the President's now-defunct voter fraud commission is speaking out. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Matthew Dunlap about the panel, which he says was set up to validate the president's claims.

Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.

Whether we were paying attention or not, 2024 was filled with good news. In case you weren't, NPR's member stations have been keeping track. Here are some of the stories that made us smile this year.

The Biden administration accuses charter companies of collaborating with global smuggling networks.