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When Rahsheed McKenstry, 10, and his mother Rhonetta McKenstry entered the StoryCorps booth in Memphis, Tenn., he quickly found his own interview style ... a style that uncovered hard truths.

In her new memoir, Tippi, the actress speaks frankly about Hollywood, her career, and her complicated relationship with Alfred Hitchcock — who made her a star, but also made her life hell.

Last Friday, Spanish language TV station Telemundo aired the first of Florida’s gubernatorial debates. But Telemundo chose not to include Libertarian...

A slimmed tax-cut package is heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis, after lawmakers late Friday sought to bolster state reserves that could be needed as the novel…

Journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who was arrested and sent to prison in Egypt in 2013, talks to Renee Montagne. After spending 14 months in prison and 5 months out on bail, he faces a retrial.

Don Gonyea talks with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear about storm damage in his state, and how the recovery effort is going.

Millions of acres of forest in the Southwest are overgrown — and ripe to ignite as climate change intensifies drought and heat. Selective thinning and other efforts aim to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, but those efforts may not be enough to overcome ever-bigger, ever-hotter fires.

Floridians have until December 31st to sign up for a health insurance plan through Obamacare, thanks to Hurricane Irma.

The president also said that he chose to go to Walter Reed medical center rather than be "locked up in a room upstairs" in the White House. He said he is feeling better than when he arrived Friday.

You might see more people wearing a neck cooling fan to fight the summer heat. But can they really help? We talk to experts about how our bodies deal with heat — and to people using the fans.

The CEO of Norfolk Southern railroad faced pointed questioning over the hazardous train derailment and fire that released toxic fumes last month, as well as his company's safety culture.

Projected financial benefits include a $566 million economic impact, $26 million in tax revenue, and over $500 million in direct visitor spending over the first decade.

After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury told Judge Arun Subramanian that it had decided on counts related to sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution but not yet on racketeering.

Tayari Jones' new novel tells a story of love, race, justice and what happens when "normal" people come face-to-face with the unthinkable.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Democratic Congressman Pete Aguilar of California about the testimony by the Capitol Police inspector general regarding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A federal judge has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to liquidate his personal assets to pay families of Sandy Hook victims for spreading lies that the Connecticut school shooting was a hoax.

According to the Florida Department of Transportation in 2017-2021 statewide, Florida experienced more than 53,000 work-zone related crashes, including more than 356 fatalities, and more than 1,904 severe injuries.

Michael Lewis, author of a new book called Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, contends the current Wall Street slump will have some healthy long-term effects, including more moderate financial risk-taking and more proportionate rewards for CEOs.

After reports that Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Fox News' Tucker Carlson access to security footage from Jan. 6, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the move.

A state official said workers are remaining at jobs longer than they did a few years ago.

Up to 15 inches of rain is forecast in North Carolina as Hurricane Dorian moves up the East Coast. In Wilmington, authorities say storm surge and flooding is the big concern.

Last Night is James Salter's second story collection, 15 years after he published Dusk. Salter give us an America rich and lustrous and poor enough in spirit to break your heart three times over.

Residents of Colorado and neighboring states are digging out after one of the heaviest snowstorms on record. But it won't make more than a dent in alleviating the region's severe drought.

When Loden first uttered the phrase "the glass ceiling" in the 1970s, she hoped the invisible barrier for women that it described would soon become a thing of the past. She died last month at age 76.

Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in aid due to theft of medications.