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Malat Lueth Wei, a top wheelchair basketball player who has helped introduce the sport to his homeland, is featured in a new short documentary.

What happens when a bandless Michigan high school football team meets a school band with no team? NPR's Scott Simon asks Glen Lake football player Ben Kroll and Forest Area band member Hannah Spencer.

Major League Baseball playoffs are underway. Additionally, one-game wild card playoffs can rob the season of drama. Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant.

Grand Union is novelist Zadie Smith's first collection of short stories. It's an eclectic mix. Smith says writing short stories allowed her to experiment with form, style and genre.

They are urging the international community for more resources to help manage climate change and calling for larger countries to cut their carbon emissions.

That giant pile of plastic trash in the ocean just got a little smaller. Dutch inventor Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup project recently collected its first plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Online disinformation campaigns thrive in big, polarizing moments for the country — and the impeachment inquiry is no exception.

Nearly a decade after her first appearance at the Tiny Desk, Sharon Van Etten returns with a full band and a bigger, bolder sound.

A federal judge in New York rules that President Trump must turn over multiple years of tax returns. It's part of an investigation of Trump's business dealings going back to before he took office.

The town of Stroud has long been an incubator for activism. Last year, it gave rise to the group Extinction Rebellion, which has rallied thousands globally to demand action on climate change.

Mecklenburg County manager Dena Diorio has a buzzword when touting the quarter-cent sales tax: Transparency.In a recent meetings, Diorio has said -…

Kurdish allies of the U.S. say the president's decision is "shocking." Sen. Lindsey Graham says Trump is doing "EXACTLY what President Obama did in Iraq with even more disastrous consequences."

In a letter, they urge the Labor Department to ensure safe levels of silica dust at workplaces that cut popular "engineered stone." At least 18 workers have recently suffered severe lung damage.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Gayle Lemmon of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the U.S. standing aside while Turkey launches an offensive in northern Syria, and what that means for ISIS.

Britain's prime minister is asking the U.S. to lift diplomatic immunity for an American diplomat's wife involved in a fatal traffic accident in England, who then fled home after the crash.

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.

President Trump may be forced to release some of his tax records to prosecutors in New York.

Dozens of women accused chef Charlie Hallowell of sexual harassment two years ago. Hallowell says he's changed now, and that he's worked to find "a softer, humbler, kinder way to navigate the world."

A recent study found that the average allowance for kids is $30 a week. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with certified public accountant Michael Eisenberg about that number.

The rule would allow employers to require waitstaff and others to share their tips with kitchen staff. But labor advocates say it could allow bosses to take advantage of their workers.