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House musician Jonathan Coulton changes the lyrics of classic Queen songs to be about real or fictional queens. With tunes this catchy, resistance is feudal!

The fight over the Charlotte airport appears permanently stuck. The Federal Aviation Administration essentially confirms that by refusing to give the…

In the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees offer proposals on how they would combat terrorism.

When we first met Monzer Omar, the Syrian teacher was waiting for smugglers in western Turkey to arrange passage for him to Greece. He is now a refugee in Germany, and he recently met U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power in Berlin during a fact finding trip on refugees. NPR's Ari Shapiro brings us up to date on Omar's story and talks to Ambassador Power about the U.S. and international response to the migration crisis.

Nader tells Jeremy Hobson that Democrats are "looking for a scapegoat" for the 2000 presidential election that saw Al Gore lose to Republican George W. Bush.

Annie Proulx's epic new novel is a multigenerational, multicentury epic about the fall of forests before human depredation — just don't think about how many trees went into its 700-plus pages.

Scientists are turning to big data to try to save California's state amphibian. They're using software to comb through hours of recordings to find the red-legged frogs that remain.

Oysters, cocaine, fine wine, love triangles: Stephanie Danler's debut novel Sweetbitter follows a year in the life of a young woman working at a top-tier Manhattan restaurant.

Pam Edwards was playing the video game next to her boyfriend, Shane Birkinbine. Little did she know, Birkinbine had redesigned the level so the bricks spelled out "Will you marry me?"

It's the NBA version of the red carpet Glam Cam. Viewers can relive slam dunks and other show-stopping plays.

Farmers change what they grow, expand their herds, and buy new land, changing the surrounding landscape.

Neil Fachon found an experimental brain cancer therapy being offered in Texas. But just one day into treatment, the FDA ordered it to stop.

Investments in solar, wind and hydropower were more than twice as high as money spent on developing fossil fuels sources.

Budgets are supposed to be focused on taxes and spending. But the North Carolina Senate has a reputation for sliding major policy changes into its…

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to a group of 45-year-old voters who experienced a swell of patriotism and American exceptionalism in their youth.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, about the increase in Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

Space is so crazy big that it should make you realize most of the day-to-day stuff we sweat just doesn't matter — and that is a very good thing, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

Authorities are removing the last of more than 100 live tigers from a temple west of Bangkok. The day before, they made a grisly discovery of 40 tiger cub carcasses in a freezer there.

After Daraya was taken over by rebels, Syrian government forces blocked off the city — bombing it regularly. Ailsa Chang talks to Pawel Krzysiek of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The forest at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is sick, infected by invasive aphid-like bugs. To help save the trees, the park's vegetation crew uses pesticides as well as a tiny beetle from Asia.