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England, that incurably gloomy nation, is secretly very happy indeed. The combination of looming financial austerity, unseasonably harsh winter weather and feeling cheated out of the 2018 World Cup is just perfect.

The owners of the We Geek Together game store in Provo organized the event. They needed at least 500 players to be recognized by Guinness World Records — more than 1,200 showed up.

A new law includes a provision that could mean bettors pay more during tax season. Major poker players are calling on Congress to royally flush the measure down the drain.

NPR's Brian Mann slipped away from his desk during a hectic week for an early morning canoe paddle on a wild river in Vermont.

Bradley Cooper's new relationship dramedy Is This Thing On? is about a man who's never done comedy before, working out his marital problems on a stand-up stage.

PFAS are a family of chemicals accumulating in the soil, rivers, drinking water and the human body. How much exposure to these substances in clothes, firefighting foam and food wrap is too much?

Missouri Republicans are campaigning to make sure voters know they don't have to split their conscience on the abortion issue this November.

NPR's Steve Inskeep explores the Trump administration's portrayal of 250 years of U.S history captured on the Washington Monument.

The largest human composting facility in the nation is soon opening in Maryland, with capacity to handle 2,000 bodies a year. It's meeting a growing demand for eco-friendly interment options.

Jones' new novel, Kin, is set in 1950s Louisiana and Atlanta, and tells the story of two young women who grow up next door to each other without their mothers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Republican strategist Scott Jennings about his thoughts on the past week at the DNC.

Canadian singer-songwriter Georgia Harmer talks about her new album, Eye of The Storm.

In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other primates, leading to larger brains and more free time. Wrangham discusses his theory, and why Homo sapiens can't live on raw food alone.

Now that the world's most famous Catholic is an American from Chicago, some hope Pope Leo XIV will help bring new energy to a church that's been on the steady decline there.

Since 2003, the StoryCorps project has recorded 15,000 personal conversations between family members and friends. A new book chronicles some of the stories, and two participants describe what it was like to share their private stories with millions of radio listeners.

The folk-blues singer describes her creative process as "receiving" a song. "It usually starts with one voice," she says, "And as soon as I hear one, then 500 more come in and surround it."

Taylor Korn, a lifelong Boulder, Colo., resident, had already lost her father and grandmother this past summer. Then a wildfire took her home and two dogs.

As more states ban gender care for youth, doctors and clinics in Minnesota are building up capacity to help the influx of trans patients who are traveling or moving to the state for care.

Los Angeles writer Kevin Arnovitz speaks with an entertainment industry couple that has turned to online poker as a way to pay their bills.

In Uganda, a deadly showdown between opposition supporters and members of the president's entourage ended with a leading opposition politician in detention and his driver dead.

Pfizer presented data to investors showing that a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine boosts immunity. The company believes everyone will need a boost eight to 12 months after receiving a second shot.

Sometimes veterans don't claim their benefits because they live in remote areas that lack resources. In one Washington state county, Veterans Affairs services are at least an hour ferry ride away.

A decade of effort to win more water from the Colorado River is finally paying for the Navajo Nation. The Infrastructure Act is funding new irrigated farms now that the desert tribe can legally pull water from the river.

An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, speaks with NPR's A Martinez about the latest inflation numbers and President Trump's attack on Fed Chair Jerome Powell.