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Some signals on the economic dashboard are warning we could be heading for a downturn within a couple of years. Are we ready to fight off a recession?

Bernice Sandler, who had a major hand in creating and helping pass Title IX legislation, has died at 90. The landmark federal civil rights law ensures gender equality in education and athletics.

The situations at the border and in the White House five years ago and now are strikingly similar. Immigration experts say the Trump administration can learn from Obama's tenure.

Felix Tshisekedi was declared winner of the long-delayed presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — amid suggestions of vote-rigging.

On the first Pedro the Lion album in 15 years, songwriter David Bazan reckons with his roots, telling an origin story while avoiding any trace of self-mythologizing.

The man considered the heart and soul of the Carolina Panthers defense will not be returning to the team next season.In an emotional video posted on…

Eve Babitz had long been forgotten, when a profile by Lili Anolik triggered a reissuing of the former Hollywood glamour girl's literary works. In a new book, Anolik fills some, but not all, the gaps.

Samanta Schweblin has a gift for treating the otherworldly with a matter-of-fact attitude; her new story collection proves that she's a master of elegant, uncanny fiction.

Today on The Indicator: an update on the trade spat between China and the U.S.

As winter closed in on the town of Roddickton-Bide Arm in Newfoundland, a pod of seals became separated from open water by miles of ice.

A Manhattan drug courier has a very bad night in this scrappy but underwritten slacker comedy that plays like an extended sketch.

Brazilians are desperate for public safety, but the president's plan to dismantle firearm legislation is the wrong way to reduce crime, writes security researcher Robert Muggah.

Brewmasters at craft breweries across the nation are bemoaning the government shutdown — the federal agency that has to approve new labels for new brews is closed, delaying all new releases.

The partial government shutdown, three weeks in.

The Bureau of Land Management has gone ahead with a series of public meetings on its effort to expand oil development in the 22-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

The U.S. partial government shutdown is on track to be the longest in history. Whatever its political consequences, the economic costs to the private sector will increase the longer it lasts.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Daniel Shapiro, former ambassador to Israel, about the differences between President Obama's Cairo speech and the one Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave on Thursday.

The case of a Saudi woman who took refuge in a Bangkok hotel room as she sought asylum in a third country has highlighted Thailand's checkered history of dealing with similar cases.

North Carolina wildlife officials are warning of a deadly disease encroaching on the state's deer population.The Asheville Citizen-Times reports the N.C.…

In 2019, classic American works of literature, film, music and art will once again start entering the public domain.