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The word "ideology" has become a fixture in American political rhetoric, invoked by leaders to cast opponents' beliefs as dangerous, stupid or unfounded. But it wasn't always this way.

A small community of Afghan immigrants have made Bellingham, Wash., their home. After one of their own allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers, the community grapples with fear and sorrow.

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former NPR host David Greene who is set to take over LNP, the Pennsylvania newspaper where he was once an intern.

Hong Kong's chief executive has created an independent committee to investigate the causes of a deadly apartment blaze, as political pressure and popular frustration mount.

A corruption scandal in Ukraine hits Volodymyr Zelenskyy's inner circle but not the president himself.

Tourism in Maui is making housing for the locals who live there too expensive.

We investigate how the tech industry is thinking about its environmental footprint as it invests in energy-consuming new AI models.

Scientists are far from knowing all of the complexities of Earth's ocean. With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know, like its role as one of the world's largest carbon sinks and how life changes as the waters get deeper.

China-based ByteDance will still own the underlying algorithm, according to an internal memo that NPR reviewed.

If you're tempted to bail on potentially fun events becuase you feel awkward, read this. Level up your small talk game and practice social courage with six tips from psychologists.

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday requiring his administration to downgrade marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug.

Survivor Liz Stein has been waiting for years for the documents to be released.

There were overnight developments in the investigation into both shootings.

The suspect in Saturday's Brown University shooting was discovered dead at a storage facility in New Hampshire. The same man is suspected in the fatal shooting of an MIT physics professor on Monday.

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe was seriously wounded. Trump says the deployments are necessary to fight crime, but others disagree.

Canadian musician Yves Jarvis has released a deluxe edition of his Polaris Prize–winning album 'All Cylinders'.

Dr. Chari Cohen, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, says there is no scientific basis for scaling back newborn hepatitis B shots.

Gaza students with scholarships to Canada say visa delays have left many stranded, and some were killed waiting to leave.

Senator Mark Warner says video of the Caribbean attack reveals survivors still on the wreck when the second strike came.

American Muslim communities are working to reduce stigma around therapy by bringing mental health services into mosques and making counseling easier to access.

NPR's Tom Bowman says his decades of roaming Pentagon halls ended after NPR refused to sign a new policy requiring reporters to wait for official information releases - but his reporting hasn't slowed at all.

Professor Šumit Ganguly, Director of the Huntington Program at Stanford's Hoover Institution, says Putin's visit to India reflects ongoing ties despite U.S. pressure.

Protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia mark a year of unrest, accusing the government of ditching Europe for closer ties with Russia.