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A mountain in Wales has been downgraded to a hill after a new satellite survey.

Today on the Indicator: why companies decide to be publicly-traded or privately-owned. It's all about control. And money.

Mueller. Midterms. Manafort's trial continues. Iran sanctions reimposed, and the trade war with China escalates. Our news roundtable takes it all in.

WFAE’s Morning Edition format will be a little different beginning Monday. The format reflects changes to NPR’s program clock that will give the network…

U.N. aid agencies and the government of Bangladesh have criticized Myanmar for delays in offering safe return to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled their homes in Myanmar last August.

Manufacturers work to perfect the sound drivers make when the ball is hit just right. Scott Simon talks with Tom Mase, who teaches mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks ... Spirited relationship, Uber Black, beercuzi.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney have differing memories of who wrote the music for "In My Life." A mathematics professor has spent 10 years working with statistics to decide once and for all.

Nell Stevens's new memoir is an uneven but pleasant book that braids her story of doing a PhD amid an uneasy love affair with imaginary scenes from the life of her 19th century research subject.

UNC-Chapel Hill has spent $21 million on investigations, public relations and legal bills connected to the six-year academic scandal at the school.The…

Novelist David Joy, whose books chronicle the rural, working-class South of his own milieu, has penned a new book where a hunting accident triggers a thriller of violent vengeance.

There is a new study on the effect treating teens for depression has on their parents. It suggests just treating teens has benefits for parents.

Tensions between the U.S. and Turkey have been escalating over the weekend, after the U.S. imposed sanctions against Turkey for continuing to hold an American pastor in custody.

On the band's ninth album, Ben Gibbard addresses an array of life's aftermaths, set against propulsive arrangements that know just when to sparkle and sway.

There's been a deadly explosion at an arms depot in the rebel-held Syrian town of Idlib. At least 12 children are reported among the dead. Dozens of people are missing.

Noel King talks to Elmira Bayrasli — who served in the State Department during the Clinton administration, and now teaches international affairs at Bard College — about the tariffs.

Are you noticing any effects from the tariffs in your daily life or work? Are you paying less or more for products you buy at the supermarket or for your business? NPR wants to hear from you.

Requiring college students to study Shakespeare might not be hilarious, but a new novel centering on a battle over The Bard is being described as such.

Staples fired a manager Monday for assuming an expecting mother of twins was shoplifting at a store in Pineville.According to a statement issued to…

The Trump administration is under pressure to reunify migrant children whose parents were deported. That can't come soon enough for many parents who haven't seen their children in months.