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A series of crime novels now adapted for TV imagines former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a crime-solving detective.

Nominations for the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday. The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on September 15.

The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas command and control center in al-Muwasi, west of Khan Younis, and killed three Hamas commanders in the strike. Hamas did not confirm the deaths.

New York is known for its street food vendors. NPR spent time with a recently arrived migrant who is hitting the streets to sell for the first time, but has to overcome a huge hurdle: his shyness.

The Mexican drama The Accident and the Swedish series Quicksand offer interesting perspectives on difficult topics. They are also a reminder that justice plays out differently around the world.

The penalty settles charges against eBay more than three years after then-employees sent spiders and cockroaches, among other things, to a couple over their newsletter's coverage of the company.

LaPierre leaves as he and other former NRA officials stand accused of misappropriating funds from the nonprofit to bankroll opulent lifestyles. LaPierre has denied those allegations.

Zelenskyy is headlining a frenzied first full day of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in the Swiss resort, where officials from the U.S., EU, China and Middle East will also be prominent.

NPR commentators favor Jennifer Close's look at women facing marriage and Amanda Hodgkinson's post-World War II family drama. There are also memoirs by actor Christopher Plummer and nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, plus Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams re-evaluate universities for the digital age.

It started as a banner year for female candidates. More ran in party primaries than ever before, especially Republicans. Some posted big victories Tuesday. But for the first time since the 1970s, the total number of women in the new Congress will likely drop.

Years of treating grievously injured people starts to wear on a person, a trauma nurse in Minneapolis says. She explores "compassion fatigue" in a semi-autobiographical poem.

Media outlets are full of stories about whether women can "have it all." After becoming a mother, Curtis Sittenfeld came to appreciate novels and memoirs that look beyond those headlines to celebrate the difficult, messy, delightful juggling act of parenthood. She shares three of her favorites.

Bayer is adding two of its name-brand drugs to the roster of Cost Plus Drugs: the birth control pill Yaz and the menopause treatment Climara.

It happens. Sometimes, you buy holiday gifts weeks in advance — sometimes it's Christmas morning, extended family arrive and you have nothing to give them. Cue a guide to the truly last-minute gift.

The official forecast for the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season was issued by the NHC and it calls for a very active season with the presence of La Niña and record-breaking warm sea surface ocean temperatures.

President Trump is eager to put the health care debacle behind him and focus on tax reform, but the failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act could handicap that effort.

Negotiations typically stretch into the fall or even spring semester. But, this year, teacher union leaders and school officials landed a swifter compromise.

The DeSantises were in Jacksonville to discuss funding for the Cancer Connect Collaborative approved in Florida’s 2025-26 fiscal year budget.

Thousands of giant panda sculptures will greet residents and tourists starting Saturday in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local theme park.

Caught in the shutdown, the National Park Service has closed all of its sites around the National Mall — all of them, that is, except the clock tower at President Trump's hotel.

'Jamboree' feels scattered and altogether too eager to please. But while the game's a mixed bag, it's still one of the best in the chaotic Nintendo series.

Both tax proposals in the House and the Senate would add about $1.5 trillion to the nation's debt over the next 10 years. That's a big concern for many economists and some lawmakers.

Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips total sales have hit more than $2.5 billion for 2022 already, led by works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Pablo Picasso.

Nail art is going three dimensional. Customers now want texture, along with colorful designs. We went to see what customers are getting at the nail salon.

Nail art is going three dimensional. Customers now want texture, along with colorful designs. We went to see what customers are getting at the nail salon.