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Medicare's decision to limit coverage for a controversial new Alzheimer's drug has prompted an outcry among Alzheimer's advocates. The drug is Aduhelm, and despite widespread enthusiasm for it among Alzheimer's patients and advocates, it hasn't been proven to slow the disease. The drug was given accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration because it reduces the plaque that develops in the brains of most Alzheimer’s patients.

Bubba Wallace is the first Black driver to win at NASCAR’s elite Cup level since Wendell Scott in 1963. Wallace drives for a team owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan.

With espresso shots, kisses on the cheek and Andrea Bocelli singalongs, Team Italy has charmed the baseball world. But their mission is more ambitious: Turn Italy into a bona fide baseball factory.

President Trump says that he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to finalize an Iran deal, but that the American forces' blockade of the Iranian ports would remain in place.

A federal warden claims he tried to stop the abuse at his prison complex in Illinois, but faced threats from his staff and obstacles from his bosses.

Taiwan has endured a long history of colonization. As a trip to the culinary center of Tainan reveals, those outside forces have helped create a cuisine that is distinctly Taiwanese.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Paul Rudnick about his new novel, The Tuxedo Society.

The numbers tell us that ridership is growing — slowly — but it hasn’t reached pre-pandemic levels or matched the percentage of people returning to uptown. And it’s far below the Charlotte Area Transit System’s ridership peak a decade ago.

Topline writers like Sia shape the sound of pop most directly — and everyone from Rihanna to Halsey to Beyoncé has been impacted by the shape created by Sia's voice and songwriting.

John Sellers' memoir of his obsessive love affair with indie-rock music is the "bildungsroman of a hyperliterate music snob," says Glen Weldon. The tale is "music snobbery at its most cheerily self-mocking, written in a highly charged style that goes down easy."

Cookbook author Julia Turshen says cooking should be flexible: "[Recipes] are kind of sold to people as prescriptions, these really precise things, ... but I think there's very rarely a wrong answer.

On Twitter this weekend, Pope Francis celebrated five newly recognized #saints — but that hastag is usually about the New Orleans Saints. The team went on to defeat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 13-6.

The departures of the senior vice presidents for Communications and for Human Resources, follows on the heels of strong criticism of the company's handling of the recall of nearly 2.6 million cars.

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported on U.S. spy agencies' $52.6 billion secret budget for fiscal year 2013. The information is said to be included in leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Municipalities are increasingly going to the bond market to pay their court settlement costs.

The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association calculates this based on the number of car registrations in a given period. For June, registrations were down more than 6 percent compared to a year earlier. Analysts say the EU's high unemployment rate is to blame.

Sales of the George Orwell classic have risen nearly 6,000 percent since news of the NSA's secret surveillance program broke. The book was first published 64 years ago last week.

A fast-moving fire in San Bernardino, California has now engulfed more than 6,000 acres, as two fires in Northern California continue to burn.

Already this year, more than 6,000 people have illegally walked across the U.S. border into Quebec.