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McKay Coppins explains the stakes of a Murdoch family feud. John Powers reviews the animated film Flow. Harvard professor Elizabeth Linos weighs in on Elon Musk's sweeping cuts to the U.S. government.

Dr. Francis Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.

Up to 3,000 additional troops have been ordered to the U.S.-Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the latest in President Trump's efforts to prevent illegal crossings.

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family announced last month that he had been in treatment for advanced stage cancer.

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Roy Wood, Jr. and panelists Tom Bodett, Helen Hong, and Paula Poundstone

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political breakthrough for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

In the nearly 250-year history of the United States, English had never been designated as the nation's official language.

A U.S. District judge sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president's authority to oust the head of the independent agency.

The lawsuit says there is no legitimate reason to send migrants to Guantánamo because the U.S. has ample detention facility.

Israel says it is stopping the delivery of aid to Gaza until Hamas accepts a U.S. proposal for an extension of the ceasefire deal.

A commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments successfully touched down on the moon's surface early Sunday morning, ushering in a new phase of private space exploration.

Britain, France and Ukraine have agreed to work on a ceasefire plan to present to the U.S., British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday as he prepared to host a summit of European leaders.

Delivered the day before he was acquitted in his first impeachment case, and as COVID began to spread, President Trump's 2020 address was part reality TV, part gameshow and part WWE smackdown.

A lawsuit challenges a Trump executive order that asks funding applicants to agree to not promote "gender ideology" in their work. The NEA said it would nix the language until the case concludes.

According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, most flu-related deaths across the state are among seniors.

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.

The decision would allow Yoon to stand his criminal trial while not being physically detained. The court is expected to rule soon on whether to uphold his impeachment or remove him from office.

The French transport minister said traffic would be ''strongly disrupted'' throughout the day with only limited service resuming in the afternoon, and urged travelers to postpone their trips.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to discuss the week's new releases.

A buyout to take the drugstore chain private would give it more flexibility to make changes to improve its business without worrying about Wall Street's reaction.