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In Venezuela, the arrest of opposition politicians overnight mark a shift towards dictatorship.

http://66.225.205.104/0619unemployed.mp3North and South Carolina 's unemployment rates continued their rise into double digits last month. The latest…

Journalist Owen Williams thinks he's found the right way to hang toilet paper. He tweeted a picture of the first TP patent. The drawings, from 1891, show the paper clearly hanging over the roll.

Chester, South Carolina has a population around 5,500. It is in many ways a classic small Southern city. Chartered in 1840, the town has plenty of…

The imaginative pianist swings with easy grace while playing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" in 1992.

Evanston, Ill., will make reparations available to Black residents in what's believed to be the first program of its kind in the U.S. They could get up to $25,000 for down payments or home repairs.

The Minneapolis community reacts to the sentencing of former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

October has plans to bring us some new works from established authors — and some attention-grabbing books from new ones. Here are some of the books we're excited about coming next month.

An international panel has unanimously recommended that Pluto retain its title as a planet, and it may be joined by other undersized objects that revolve around the sun.

William Donaldson announced Wednesday that he would leave the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30. The outgoing SEC head is widely considered to have been a surprisingly aggressive advocate for reform.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about the weekend's major movie releases: The Night Listener, Barnyard: The Original Party Animals, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Politicians give speeches and scary headlines fill the news, but somehow life pushes on for New Yorkers.

Three scientists will share this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine by discovering the mechanism cells use to sense and respond to oxygen.

As President Obama prepares for a historic visit to Cuba next week, the administration is taking additional steps to relax restrictions on travel and trade with the island.

As firefighters arrived at a house fire in Webster, N.Y., police say, convicted murderer William Spengler opened fire. Two firefighters were killed. Two others were wounded. Residents were evacuated. Police say Spengler apparently took his own life. Seven homes were destroyed.

HBO's mock tennis documentary stars Andy Samberg as a brash American taking on a shy Brit in a fictional 2004 match that lasted a week.

Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

The Storied South is a new book by folklorist William Ferris, collecting 40 years worth of oral histories from Southern writers and artists. Ferris tells NPR's Celeste Headlee that the book was a way of getting everyone from Eudora Welty to Bobby Rush to a "common table of conversation."

Tennis matches get started on Monday at the U.S. Open in New York. Renee Montagne talks to Courtney Nguyen, senior writer at WTA Insider, who offers a preview on what to look for.

Bart Freundlich's gender-flipped remake of a twisty Danish film is glossy, slick and strangely sedate.