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In rock and roll terms, the Portland-based band is a veteran act. When they started playing together 17 years ago, they had no idea the gig would last. Now, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have put out their eighth album, called American Gong.

NPR's A Martínez talks to former Ukrainian infrastructure minister Volodymyr Omelyan, as he returns from the frontline. He warns of a humanitarian crisis if critical infrastructure isn't protected.

In an exclusive interview at the White House, Jake Sullivan spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep. They discussed China-Taiwan tensions, the war in Ukraine, and his upcoming trip to Israel.

The documentary series, an adaptation of Hirway's popular podcast, asks musicians including Alicia Keys and R.E.M to tell the step-by-step story of how a song was created.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with author Katherine May about her latest book, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age.

When it comes to selling Texas Latinos on the Republican Party, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz would seem like a natural. But even though he is the son of a Cuban refugee, Cruz is much closer to his Tea Party supporters' hard line on immigration than he is to the Republicans who are urging a more accommodating position for the sake of the party's future.

It was the unstoppable force versus the immovable object as goats and sheep locked horns over salt licks newly exposed in a warming climate in Montana. A new study reports on this cage match.

The Florida Supreme Court is wrestling in Tallahassee over questions about whether Marsy's Law and protecting the rights of crime victims can be used to keep anonymous the identities of police officers who kill a suspect in the line of duty.

The fraud trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is moving fast. The first day saw the jury seated, and witnesses are lined up to testify on Wednesday.

Some Justice Department veterans said they worry about the possibility of political interference in law enforcement decisions if Trump wins the White House.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with science journalist and author Rebecca Skloot about Henrietta Lacks, whose family just settled with a biotech company that used her cancer cells without consent.

While space enthusiasts show up in the thousands along Florida's Space Coast, it's hardly the only place on Earth hosting excitement for space exploration.

Once family-owned, luxury fashion houses have been gobbled by conglomerates. Industry watchers say designers have suffered from a pressure-cooker environment that focuses intensely on the bottom line.

We look at the challenges and opportunities the United Auto Workers strike present to President Biden and former President Donald Trump's campaigns, and the threat of an impending government shutdown.

This has been a watershed year. So far in 2023, there have been 22 major strikes: 17 at companies, making it the largest number of strikes in the private sector since 2011.

Hurricane Ian hit Sarasota and left families and businesses upended in its wake. A year and a day later, Detwiler's Farm Market reopened its flagship store to the community.

In her new book, Doris Kearns Goodwin revisits the '60s through her late husband Richard Goodwin's perspective—and her own.

Changes proposed by Tom Vail -- if approved by lawmakers -- would have a huge impact on voters.

President Obama's commencement speeches often seem more about the big-picture state of the union than do his State of the Union addresses, which read like to-do lists. And his assessment of where the country stands and where it's going has changed over the past four years.

NPR's A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats to the integrity of the 2024 vote.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, about Nikki Haley's path forward following a weekend loss to Donald Trump in the South Carolina Republican primary.

For decades, China's Communist Party has declared that corruption threatens its survival. But a state-run paper recently argued that corruption couldn't be stamped out, so it should be contained to acceptable levels.

Something very big, out beyond Neptune, is warping the orbits of small, icy objects circling our sun. Astronomers haven't seen it yet, but say the culprit could be a planet with 10 times Earth's mass.

The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean agreement.

A family tragedy intersects with a Shakespearean tragedy when a construction worker gets roped into performing in a community theater production of Romeo & Juliet. (Story aired on ATC on June 14, 2024.)