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If your social calendar is burning a hole in your wallet, there are steps you can take to spend less while maintaining good relationships.

A competitor in Rio grew up poor in the islands, leaving home to live on the streets when he was 8. There's not even a running track there. Now he's competing in the 400-meter hurdles.

The government keeps track of who is alive and who is dead. But there can be errors. And when you're mistakenly ruled dead, it can be remarkably tough to convince people you're still among the living.

Russia will boost security in Crimea after an attempted incursion. Steve Inskeep talks to Stephen Sestanovich, senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Shehrose Charania of Chicago graduated this month from college despite the challenges her family faced during the pandemic, including unemployment and getting sick with COVID-19.

Ezekiel Emanuel, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, addresses the differences between PCR tests and rapid tests when it comes to getting tested before travel.

Some people are trying to treat autoimmune problems with an unlikely tool: worms that live in your gut, permanently. Scientists are finally starting to figure out whether they work.

David Yoon draws on his own experience working in tech for his new novel, about a disillusioned data whiz who decides to, literally, reboot the internet — with some catastrophic consequences.

The gonzo journalist was so enamored with Hemingway that early in his career he traveled to the Idaho cabin where Hemingway died. After 52 years, the antlers he took were returned to the Hemingways.

For our summer series "The World's a Stage," we meet Preyas Roy, a man who plays the vibraphone on a busy Chicago street corner.

With the coronavirus vaccinations slowing infection rates in the U.S., we look at potential threats posed by new viruses.

The university announces the offensive coordinator for the No. 1-ranked Buckeyes, the nation's defending champs, will replace Alex Golesh, who bolted for Auburn.

A letter from two House Democrats presses Rubio for details about who approved an effort to try to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on armored electric vehicles from Tesla.

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

Members of the Congressional Labor Caucus wrote the letter after NPR reported that a whistleblower says DOGE may have removed sensitive labor data and compromised the security of computer systems.

The contentious free transfer of the undeveloped plot of land, which some estimate to be worth over $300 million, had led to a public outcry and a lawsuit that blocking the move - which prompted the college's Board of Trustees to set a second meeting, this one open to the public.

Ghana is one of five African countries that are known to have offered to take in migrants deported from the U.S. from other countries.

There’s a new “short king” in town.

Costco is attempting to get back the money it has paid on tariffs on imported products.

These days, you can find an Advent calendar for anything you want, from Yankee candles to fishing hooks to cat toys.

Tony and Oscar-winning playwright Tom Stoppard's death was announced this past weekend.

The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator wrote in an email to staff on Friday that the COVID-19 vaccine led to at least 10 deaths in children. But experts say they are skeptical of the findings because they were presented with very little evidence.

The Brick is a physical device that turns off apps on an iPhone to eliminate distractions.

The Supreme Court is considering a case about anti-abortion pregnancy centers that are often faith-based and counsel people away from abortion.

Suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal served in an elite CIA squad of Afghans called the Zero Units.