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Border Patrol agents are increasingly clashing with rock-throwing smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego. Mexican officials say the agents have retaliated by lobbing tear gas canisters into a Tijuana neighborhood.

Whether fighting about texting or curfew, the key to resolving parent-child disputes is by helping them understand why they're angry in the first place. It usually turns out to be another stress like trouble at school or fear of embarrassment.

Brig. Gen. Mark Quander is taking a new position in charge of cadets at West Point. He talked with NPR about his family's military history and how to address extremist ideologies in the military.

The creator of Buffy and the Avengers movie is immensely talented, and critic Bob Mondello says Amy Pascale's belligerently upbeat biography might have benefited from his eye for detail and nuance.

As he approaches his 100th birthday, the legendary Beat poet and publisher has a new book. Billed as his "literary last will and testament," Little Boy is part memoir, part rambling free-association.

Epps died after collapsing at a memorial service Tuesday afternoon, the university said. She was 72.

House Republicans picked the current majority leader for speaker: He won a majority of the Republicans' 221 votes in a closed-door, secret-ballot election. Timing for a floor vote remains unclear.

The Commitment March called for the same reforms that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did 57 years ago.

Democrats will hold 12 presidential primary debates. The Democratic National Committee says it will have about one a month through the process.

A clever photography trick allows you to see the invisible: the rising heat from a lighter, the turbulence around airplane wings, the plume of a sneeze ... and even sound waves.

The photo of the young child's body powered a surge of public concern for the refugee crisis. Now his aunt, Tina Kurdi, has written a memoir about her family's sorrows and hopes.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida is “ready to take this next step" in announcing an expansion of COVID-19 vaccine eligibility in a video released Thursday.

In a parking lot and on San Francisco Bay, NPR witnesses two different tests for solar geoengineering to tackle climate change. With much science unsettled, experts say regulations aren't keeping up.

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.

Kim Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. Wright's family has expressed skepticism about the police explanation that Potter mistook her gun for her Taser.

The parole panel's recommendation to release Sirhan, 77, in August was based in part on new California laws since he was last denied parole in 2016 — the 15th time he'd lost his bid for release.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the head of FEMA's Housing Task Force in California about the agency's slow response to the most recent wildfires in California.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Bianca Tylek of Worth Rises about the nonprofit's call to urge Tom Gores to sell the Detroit Pistons due to his investment in a prison telecom business.

A new statewide mask mandate in California went into effect Wednesday, bringing the total number of states with mask mandates to 10. That has some public health advocates worried as omicron spreads.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Zalmay Khalilzad, a former ambassador to Iraq, about the country's election results.

He's a blustery rich guy with a penchant for media attention and a catchy slogan.No, not the guy preparing to move into the White House. We're talking…

A sense of imminent doom is gripping Europe in the face of a possible Greek default on its debt. The head of the European Commission calls it the most serious problem to hit Europe in a generation, while others have warned of "dramatic economic, social and political costs" if Greece was to leave the eurozone.

Over the last two weeks, there has been no leadership, no law and order in the capital and a dwindling supply of humanitarian aid.

After U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops pushed demonstrators out of Lafayette Park, President Trump walked from the White House to St. John's Church where he posed for pictures with a Bible.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the CEO of Hallow, a Catholic prayer app, about the next pope.