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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about his call to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen.

The federal government is defunding scientific research programs in the Grand Canyon/Colorado River region, leaving longstanding projects and lots of jobs in limbo.

The great actress will always be remembered for a certain scene involving a very dead boiled bunny. So we asked her to answer three questions about live rabbits.

As Sweden prepares for its Sept. 9 general election, the rise of a populist right-wing party has changed the political landscape.

Ken Starr offers his first detailed public reflections of the independent counsel probe of President Clinton, 20 years later. Here you can read the first published excerpt — a chapter titled "Monica."

German leaders have dismissed the rise of the far-right as an electoral fluke that can be overcome by shifting policies a bit to the right. But if polls are to be believed, the approach isn't working.

Venezuelans rely on money sent from relatives working outside the country. But new rules and currency problems mean that now some have to leave the country themselves to receive the cash.

Georgetown University students and inmates in the District of Columbia worked together in a college-level music class focusing on incarceration in the U.S.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Michael Musto, who wrote Village Voice's famous nightlife column for 30 years before he was laid off, and then returned in 2015 until the paper closed on Aug. 31.

President Trump's threats to impose another $200 billion worth of tariffs is having an impact on China's economy and leading to concerns about its leadership.

Katherine Marsh's book Nowhere Boy is the story of a 14-year-old Syrian refugee in Brussels, and his friendship with an American boy. She talks with NPR's Rachel Martin.

A herd of wild horses in North Carolina that has suffered a stretch of deaths and banishments has welcomed a new foal.The chief operating officer of the…

Police are investigating two homicides in the Charlotte area last night.CMPD says a man was shot and killed at an apartment complex in west Charlotte. The…

The state has now missed two deadlines to begin the process of printing absentee ballots for November’s election, as courts consider how to deal with…

After a sometimes raucous day of opening statements on Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is facing his first round of questioning from…

Is there anything sadder than a bowl of beautiful peaches that just won’t ripen? It’s not your imagination, especially if you bought some late-season…

In some parts of the world, species of fish are becoming depleted. Some restaurants in the U.S. are telling diners where their fish come from. One, in Nashville, is taking it a step further.

The novel is Chinese writer Cixin Liu's first in English since his "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy. And that series' radical creativity returns in this tale of scientific striving — eventually.

The Salisbury Police Department is investigating the vandalism of a Confederate monument that occurred early Saturday morning.Police got a call around 2…

The state of North Carolina is still trying to modify the contract it signed four years ago with a Spanish company to add toll lanes to I-77 from north…