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How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.

Here are the highlights from a week that marks one month of President Trump's term: Mass firings in the federal government, resignations in protest and controversial foreign policy moves.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with George Conway, a critic of President Trump running for Congress in New York, about the Justice Department's investigation into the president's accuser E. Jean Carroll.

Nicolas Gentile bought land in the Italian countryside and started building. His goal is to create a hobbit village, modeled after J.R.R. Tolkien's Shire. He an his family dress in hobbit clothes.

Nobel Prizes are announced next month, but winners of the Ig Nobels were revealed Thursday. Those awards are given for the funniest research projects. They included surfing ducklings.

The 2019 photo of an egg used to be Instagram's most liked picture — until a photo of Messi and his teammates celebrating. Over 71 million likes makes it the most-liked in Instagram history.

Ever since the University of South Florida started playing football 19 years ago, the question has been: Will there ever be an on-campus football…

Manoush Zomorodi of the TED Radio Hour podcast talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about her hearing loss and strategies she's developed to cope.

Aimee Ledesma didn’t realize recess was something that could be taken away until she started to ask her kindergartner more pointed questions about her...

In what NASA is calling "HERstory" in space, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir stepped outside the International Space Station on Friday to replace a bad battery charger.

Indian marathon runner Fauja Singh was 114 years old when he was killed in a hit-and-run.

Blowback was fierce after North Carolina passed transgender bathroom restrictions in 2016. But states aren't feeling as much heat after several easily-passed restrictions in recent years.

Facebook's parent company Meta laid off 11 thousand workers. This is the first large-scale workforce reduction in the company's 18-year history.

A security gap on the most popular smartphone operating system was discovered by security experts in a lab and is so far not widely exploited. It would let malicious code take over a phone instantly.

When they ran out of room for rescue animals in their home, Tracey Stewart and her husband, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, bought a farm. Her new book is Do Unto Animals.

As the Paris Olympics get underway, teams of IT experts have been thinking about one thing for months, and it’s not the sports. It’s the possibility of a disruptive cyberattack.

More than 50 workers at Marvel Studios in LA, New York and Atlanta have signed authorization cards to be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved spending $19 million to conserve rural land used for cattle, while also expanding a list of agricultural properties the state could help shield from residential or commercial development.

The Justice Department and the FCC clear the way for Cingular Wireless to acquire AT&T Wireless. The deal, worth an estimated $41 billion, makes Cingular the nation's largest wireless phone company. Hear NPR's Wendy Kaufman.

A 42-year-old woman's neighborhood was devastated because of Irma’s storm surge. Some of her neighbors never returned. A 66-year-old woman in Key West...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to China this weekend for some high stakes diplomacy. But Washington says it doesn't expect major breakthroughs from this trip.

The measure prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third-grade.

Since slipping behind in the polls, Republican hopeful John McCain has been intensifying his attacks on Democrat Barack Obama. Mindful that the economy is uppermost in voters' minds, McCain repeated Wednesday the proposal he floated in Tuesday's debate: having the government come directly to the aid of people whose homes have lost value and who can't meet their monthly payments.

Eight million federal student loan borrowers are waiting for the courts to decide if the repayment plan they're enrolled in -- President Biden's SAVE plan -- is essentially so generous that it's illegal.

As the government shutdown drags on, the Trump administration says Democrats will be to blame when millions of Americans will lose their SNAP benefits Nov. 1.