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The U.S. and NATO are staging their largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War, and they're doing it in countries of 3 former members of the Warsaw Pact: Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

Shaping technology to some form of learning could depart pretty radically from the more familiar aim of shaping technology to the way we are now, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.

Tuxedo, the unlikely-on-paper funk-soul duo of Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One, brought a left-of-center sonic approach and a sharp sense of style to their Tiny Desk Concert.

Romero was known for graphic horror films like Night of the Living Dead, which showed corpses rising up to feast on the living. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1988.

Imtiaz Shams grew up as a devout Muslim, but has since left Islam, and co-founded an organization that supports people who are leaving their religion.

With the death of China’s dissident Liu Xiaobo, we look at human rights under the Trump administration.

The Senate unveils its revised health care bill. We’ll unpack what’s in it, and where it goes from here.

The first-ever international high school robotics competition is happening in Washington, D.C., this week. Over 150 countries from six continents sent teams to compete.

A week after the Iraqi government declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, there's still fighting and ruins engulfing the dead. Now reporters are banned from the area where the worst fighting took place.

The 13th Doctor in the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to take the role. The move is long overdue for some and an outrage for others.

Three hundred years ago, England's embattled King George I decided to divert public attention from the country's woes with a big musical party on the River Thames.

Trucking companies across the U.S. have a hard time finding drivers. After all, wages aren’t what they used to be and being on the road for weeks on end…

Graeme Macrae Burnet's stylish, atmospheric mystery can be read just as a dark little detective story — but it's worth paying attention to the novel's playful found-manuscript framing device.

Author, comedian, and fake internet judge John Hodgman talks about his new book Vacationland, mediating internet disputes, writing a serious book after a lot of fake facts, and lots more.

Hear a stunning new song from our 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner, Gaelynn Lea.

Here's a basic checklist for traveling and playing safe when the park you visit is bigger than Central Park.

It's easier now to find places to hike and camp, but rescuers say people are showing up in wildlands unprepared, without the right equipment or skills.

The smartphone app Nurx is available in 15 states and Washington, D.C., but it’s under fire from anti-abortion activists who say there should be stricter telemedicine laws.

An ancient financial arrangement, a death pact known as a tontine, may be relevant to today's understanding of insurance, and how it could be cheaper and more efficient.

Walter Lassally was the cinematographer on the 1964 film Zorba the Greek,for which he won an Academy Award. Lassally traveled the world telling epic stories through intimate images.