From the campaign trail this past week: former President Trump played music at a town hall rather than take questions, giving Democrats a renewed talking point about his mental fitness.

NPR's Eric Westervelt talks to Sean Baker. The director of "The Florida Project" has a new movie about an exotic dancer's unlikely relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch. It's called "Anora." ...

Linguist Julie Sedivy begins her memoir with giant rabbits. We'll get to those in a minute. As a child, she was brought up by immigrant parents in multiple cities, a feral polyglot world, she calls it ...

A new NPR series, "Throw It Back," explores how the objects we love as kids shape our worldview as adults. The series begins with the story of Mahlet Assefa and her cotton dress.

The United Nations effort to achieve “harmony” with the natural world kicks off in Colombia this week. Recent reports show ...

It’s very unlikely — but theoretically possible — that the presidential election ends with an Electoral College tie. If it ...

Health insurers would be required to cover all recommended over-the-counter contraception products, such as birth control and ...

Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing. Some of the most imperiled only ...

Vice President Harris and former president Donald Trump are in a tight race in Pennsylvania. The state could go either way ...

You can't eliminate stress, but you can manage it better and sometimes even make it a force for good. That means reframing ...

Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers ...

The Kremlin will be able to talk to major players like India and China about expanding trade and bypassing Western sanctions.