Students in an elementary school broadcasting club in California are among the youngest winners of NPR's Student Podcast ...

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%.

These simple post-workout activities can help reduce pain and even improve athletic performance. But many people don't ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

TEL AVIV — Israel released two Israeli hostages early Saturday among six to be freed in exchange for more than 600 ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...

At a pivotal time for Europe and NATO, Germany holds elections on Sunday. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution about the stakes of the election.

A judge in Mississippi has ordered a small town newspaper to take down an editorial critical of city officials. The paper's owner calls it a violation of free speech.

Indigenous fire stewardship practices have existed for millennia in California. A new art exhibition in Los Angeles challenges visitors to rethink their own relationships with fire.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant recap a week of intense international hockey and discuss a scary diagnosis for a rising NBA star.

Hackey Sack is not just a game to play at Phish concerts. One Oregon middle school teacher wants to make it the state sport.

New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.