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IKEA Norway released a list of 800 names of its products that parents may wish to use to name their children. It comes in the midst of a pandemic baby boom in Nordic countries.

The Puerto Rican band injects Yoruban devotional songs with electronic production to form one of the more exciting releases of 2017.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle with this week's winner, Michael Stripp of Richland, Michigan.

The company had first said it would cancel the series after the 2018 season, then suspended filming of those episodes and now has fired Spacey.

A man learns that there's more to life than sensual pleasure in this extended version of Wagner's opera.

North Carolina's environmental justice advisory board has called a special meeting in Raleigh Thursday night to discuss concerns about the fast-growing wood pellet industry.

Eastman Kodak is discontinuing the manufacture of the Kodachrome brand color positive film. Sales were big in the 1950's and 60's but Kodachrome now makes up less than one percent of all Kodak's sales.

The company behind the uber-viral water bottles is recommending customers affected by the recall reach out for a replacement part.

Consumers might not notice higher turkey costs because grocery chains are subsidizing them more than in past years.

Here's a step-by-step course of action for how to argue a medical bill that you think is a mistake.

As Election Day draws nearer, Democrats are preparing for a range of scenarios, intent on avoiding what they see as the failure of imagination that kept lawmakers from anticipating the Jan. 6 attack.

Food apps can help you figure out what's in your food and whether it's nutritious. Just scan the barcode on the packet with your phone. But different apps can give very different results. Here's why.

Many of the things that we buy in the U.S. come through a Chinese trading city called Yiwu, where thousands of wholesalers ship products from nearby factories. NPR's Steve Inskeep pays a visit to hear how merchants in China are responding to U.S. tariffs.

They stand in line outside stores or use online bots to snag the latest hot sneaker or limited-edition clothing, then resell it at a profit. Resellers are a key driver of a multibillion-dollar market.

Radio drama is in the midst of a resurgence. And producer Tom Lopez, who's been working from his upstate New York farm since the 1970s, has found a new audience, thanks to the Internet.

E-cigarettes may look sleek, but they create a lot of ugly and toxic trash. Disposable nicotine pods can be poisonous, and vape pens contain batteries and metals. How can we safely dispose of them?

Rare earths aren't all that rare. The real choke point is in processing and refining them, where China enjoys market dominance.

Cynthia Erivo stars on Broadway as Celie in The Color Purple. She talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the production, and revisits one of the first songs she sang for an audience: Silent Night.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission took photos of people with disabilities using home safety devices like flashlights and smoke alarms — then put them in the public domain for anyone to use.

Carmen Quintero couldn't get a coronavirus test but ended up with a huge bill for trying to. She also was told to self-isolate and had no choice but to use vacation time to stay home from work.