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China manufactures about one third of everything made in the world, and its industrial power is still expanding. Economist Dan Wang talks about the implications of its growth.

The U.S. has funded support services on the ground during Uganda's Ebola outbreak, the DRC's mpox outbreak and in the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. What happens now as foreign aid is being cut?

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky denied Friday that it is a security threat after the Commerce Department banned the use of its software in the United States.

The hip-hop artist spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about visiting Syrian refugees, getting detained at airports and what a person's shoes can tell you about cultural difference.

The Scottish guitarist defies expectations, ditching his traditional nylon-strung instrument for a Fender Stratocaster to play a startling range of music – from Meredith Monk to Chick Corea.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, as they say. That is, unless you ordered the latest and greatest gadget too late, and now it's stuck in supply chain limbo. We're here to help.

Florida law requires most stations to be able to run on generators, while requiring gas-station chains to have at least one portable generator for every 10 fuel outlets they own in a county.

An entire industry wouldn't exist without him, yet few know his name. In his songs, Knott challenged the faithful to examine their faults and hypocrisies.

For 61 million schoolchildren, it is one of the biggest days of the year: the last day of school. Audio snapshots from across the nation capture the sounds of school kids eager for summer freedom.

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, indie studios showed off ambitious games made by small development teams.

One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life.

Incarcerated teens tell NPR how they landed at detention centers in Maryland.

America's culture war is being fought inside evangelical Christian circles. Some are resisting secular society's trends that conflict with biblical teaching. Others have found a way to live with them.

Floridas online health insurance Marketplace has been open for business since Oct. 1. But more than a week later, people are still having trouble with

After 10 years out of the public eye, the new album from Bowie, The Next Day, proves he's still a compelling pop star in today's music world.

Pareen Mhatre is one of 200,000 young people who grow up in the U.S. but "age out" of their legal status. With no clear path to permanent residency, they're hoping Congress will step in.

Health experts say the data Ladapo based his guidance on is flawed. The unnamed authors of the study acknowledge its many limitations and call for more research.

Many states have had record high coronavirus cases in recent days. Vice President Pence plans to keep up his travel schedule despite his chief of staff and others testing positive for COVID-19.

David Fisher's farm is a kind of American Dream. Not the conventional one of upward economic mobility. This is the utopian version, the uncompromising pursuit of a difficult agrarian ideal.

After referencing a history of discrimination he's experienced, West Chester, Ohio, Board of Trustees Chairman Lee Wong removed his shirt to show scars he got while he was in the military.

In President Biden's first turkey pardon, he spared two turkeys from the Thanksgiving dinner table. The turkeys' names — Peanut Butter and Jelly — were from a list submitted by schoolchildren.

McMahon, 77, has led the wrestling organization for decades, building it into a billion-dollar enterprise. But he's recently come under scrutiny for millions in alleged hush money paid to women.

The Democratic presidential candidate has built her brand on prolific policy proposals. But she is also using folksy charm to try to win support at campaign stops in towns big and small.

The pop star is returning to stages two years after releasing an acclaimed second album, Future Nostalgia, and being forced like everyone else to hunker down for the long chill.

State and federal government is so focused on policymaking that it often fails to provide the services its laws intend. In her new book “Recoding America,” author Jennifer Pahlka outlines why the government doesn’t work and how to fix it.