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President Bush delivers what the White House calls an "important" address on Iraq from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Wednesday morning. The president laid out a strategy for victory, and focused in particular on progress he has seen in training Iraqi forces.

Sonya Mallard’s sense of home in Florida deepened in 2013 when she discovered the Moore Cultural Complex in Mims near Titusville, where she became the cultural coordinator.

Will AI in health care create a two-tiered system in which poorer people will be seen by a computer instead of a doctor? That's one concern about the burgeoning technology.

If the Oklahoma-born singer Fern Jones is remembered at all, it's for co-writing the gospel hit "I Was There When it Happened," which has been covered by Johnny Cash and others. She died in 1996, at age 73. Now, Jones' one album and several singles have been re-released on a CD titled The Glory Road.

The gunman who killed two students and injured nine others in a classroom Saturday afternoon remains at large.

Iraq's annual book fair opens today in Baghdad. But even when indulging in their favorite diversion, for Iraqis, war is always in the subtext

The former vice president's win in Michigan, in particular, has solidified Biden's place as the front-runner to be the Democratic nominee.

The White House is positioning the president to the middle on crime in an effort to blunt attacks in next year's presidential election from Donald Trump and Republicans.

Mississippi would have been the only Republican-led state in the South with a health insurance exchange not run by the federal government. Now Mississippi has another distinction: It's the only state to have its exchange plan turned down by the federal government.

It doesn't take much effort to find bags of coffee with labels that promise social and environmental improvements. But each one of these certification programs promises something different for the farmer and the land — and every promise involves some compromises.

Catherine Paulitz is the WUSF Stephen Noble Digital/Social News intern for spring 2025.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Dawnlands: A Novel, Addams Family Values, Wind of Change and Turnstile.

Bob Mondello looks at the most-produced shows at high schools through seven decades and ponders what the choices made by drama teachers tell us.

Zanes is a big star in kids' music, and he's collaborated with artists as diverse as Natalie Merchant, Lou Reed and The Blind Boys of Alabama. Zanes' latest release, 76 Trombones, is a tribute to Broadway music, kid-style. He teams up with stars of the Great White Way, including Carol Channing (Hello Dolly!) and Matthew Broderick.

The wildfires that killed more than 100 people in Maui are the deadliest to hit the U.S. in more than a century. Here's a look back at some of the country's most lethal blazes and lessons learned.

For Presidents Day, here's a look back at the controversy over what to call the country's leader, and how the modest title of "president" won out over anything that sounded too much like a monarch.

With 4,600 sailors finally home, USS Gerald R. Ford will finally receive some much needed repairs and an upgrade to its beleaguered sewage system.

A manhunt is underway for the suspect accused of shooting to death five people, including a 9-year-old child with an AR-15, in Cleveland, Texas, Friday night over an apparent noise dispute.

A former USAID worker has a new mission. She's hoping to connect philanthropists with overseas programs that have lost — or are likely to lose — their U.S. funding.

Motivated not by God, but by nearly everything else, American author David Downie traveled hundreds of miles on foot across France. He writes about his trek in his new book, Paris to the Pyrenees.

Cartoonist Matt Freedman chronicled 60 days of cancer treatment in illustrations and in writing. "I didn't think of it as a book or a journal to share," he says, "but simply as a kind of experience."

Harvard professor Jenny Hoffman ran from San Francisco to New York City to beat the world record for fastest woman to run across America.

Television talk show host Wendy Williams is known for pushing the envelope and dishing the dirt on celebs. But her rise to fame wasn't always glamorous. Host Michel Martin speaks with Williams about her career, battle with addiction and new book Ask Wendy.

Over the summer, Hawaii became the first place in the United States to ban sunscreens with chemicals that have been found to harm corals . Now Key West...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to sociologist Michael Kimmel about the male culture at prep schools that may contribute to sexual assaults, like a recent alleged rape at the elite St. Paul's School.