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A Martinez and Politico reporter Calder McHugh talk about the recent incidents of racist texts being sent between young Republicans and whether they're influencing mainstream Republican politics.

Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mike Pesca about the funds that go into the NCAA, which runs March Madness.

In her new HBO series, comedian Rachel Sennott paints a picture of Los Angeles for Gen Z, shaped by the highs and lows of internet culture.

Moldova voted in favor of adding a path to the European Union to its constitution, and gave the incumbent president the most votes in elections Sunday, but neither result was the win leaders wanted.

Senegal has been wracked by unrest, violence and sporadic social media blackouts in a country that is usually seen as a beacon of democracy and calm in an unstable region of West Africa.

NPR's political correspondent offers an analysis of Wednesday's news, including pro-Trump extremists' insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and plans to resume congressional tally of the electoral count.

Above average voter turnout is expected for next week's gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin. Passions have run high in the state ever since Republican Governor Scott Walker launched an effort to curb the collective bargaining power of public employee unions.

Scott Detrow speaks with Andy Corren, author of the colorful obituary for his mother, Renay Mandel Corren, that attracted worldwide attention this week.

Palantir Technologies has been a Wall St. darling as it's grown substantially thanks to its data analytics software used by corporate America and the U.S. government, including ICE. The work has also attracted protests.

So you want to spend less time on your phone. How do you do that when it's designed to suck you in? Life Kit spoke to experts in behavioral science, psychology and technology for real-world advice.

There have been a slew of bad calls in Major League Baseball recently, including one that was made despite the advantage of instant replay.

NPR Life Kit's Marielle Segarra provides tips to help you reduce your screentime.

A picture of the Renaissance statue is shown each year to sixth-grade art students at Tallahassee Classical School in Florida, but this month it drew fury. Italians, though, are praising the educator.

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from "ballistic attack-resistant" doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from...

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

For the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began, the state of Florida reported more than 1,000 people tested positive for the virus in a 24-hour…

Almost one third of the state's deaths from COVID-19 related complications reported Wednesday occurred in the greater Tampa Bay region.

A second update from the state Sunday showed that hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19 actually climbed slightly from a day earlier.

Turkish authorities say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 5.8 tremor, struck the Antakya region around 8 p.m. local time Monday. The quake was also felt in Syria.

As a culture critic, Lemieux has spent years pushing back against the stereotypes and stigma that follow single mothers. Her new book blends her own memoir with the stories of 21 other Black women.

Landfills are among the nation's largest sources of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. But accurately measuring methane is a major challenge to reducing it.

Los Angeles Times CEO and Publisher Ross Levinsohn has been a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits; female colleagues have repeatedly challenged his conduct in the workplace at various firms.

China’s leaders are meeting in Beijing, and have a fresh chance to make some policy adjustments to perk up the economy.

Mitt Romney may have lost the election, but the tax policy he floated is sticking with congressional Republicans. Rather than raising rates, the GOP would prefer to shrink or eliminate deductions. So what would that do to the deficit — and to the middle class?

In the 1980s, a Spanish seminarian named Mother María Jimenez recognized that the job of crewing a ship could be particularly stressful and isolating....