The newsroom union at The New York Times accuses the paper of targeting staffers of Middle Eastern descent during an inquiry into leaks about internal debates over a story on the Hamas attacks. | Continue reading
Students taking the exam use their own devices, or school devices – they no longer need a paper and pencil. More than a million students are expected to take the test. | Continue reading
If the Russian president continues to burn through his reserves of oil and gas money, ordinary people will become a threat to his power, according to one outspoken activist. | Continue reading
A New York judge has ordered former President Donald Trump and executives at the Trump Organization to pay nearly $364 million. | Continue reading
Sunday's finale marks the end of Succession and its iconic opening theme. Composer Nicholas Britell reflects on shaping the show's signature sound over four seasons — and what he might do next. | Continue reading
Musk, who has been scuffling with the media since acquiring the platform last year, asked if NPR was going to start tweeting again. | Continue reading
On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks. | Continue reading
Elon Musk said Twitter's recent labeling of NPR as "state-affiliated media" may not have been accurate during a series of email exchanges that offered a glimpse into the billionaire's thought process. | Continue reading
When she gave birth to her baby with a fatal condition two months early, Samantha Casiano scrambled to raise funds for the funeral. Anti-abortion advocates say Texas laws are "working as designed." | Continue reading
NPR operates independently of the U.S. government. NPR has asked Twitter to remove the label, calling it "unacceptable." But Twitter CEO Elon Musk says it "seems accurate." | Continue reading
NPR moved this week to cut 10 percent of its staff and stop production of a handful of podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot and Rough Translation. | Continue reading
The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News over lies about the 2020 election has brought shocking revelations to light. Among those who say they aren't shocked: former journalists at Fox News, who suggest that maybe the public now better understands what they saw … | Continue reading
Outside legal observers say the Fox News Channel finds itself in real legal jeopardy in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by an election tech company over lies broadcast about the 2020 presidential race. The amount and weight of evidence is perhaps without equal among oth … | Continue reading
In the heat of the moment, right after Election Day 2020, media magnate Rupert Murdoch knew that the hosts on his prized Fox News Channel were endorsing lies from then-President Donald Trump about election fraud. And he did nothing to intervene to stop it.(npr.org) | Continue reading
A woman who says the wind talks to her and put forth claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential race that she admitted were "pretty wackadoodle" turns out to be a key source of allegations that Fox News presented, night after night, to millions of viewers late that fall.(n … | Continue reading
Fox News stars, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, privately derided then-President Donald Trump's assertion he'd been cheated of victory in 2020, even as the network amplified such claims. | Continue reading
Late last fall, West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Amelia Ferrell Knisely reported one story after another about allegations that people with disabilities were abused in facilities run by the state. The state agency Knisely was covering demanded that one of her key stories be fu … | Continue reading
President Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address - and his first before a divided congress - tonight at 9 p.m. ET. Here's what we're following:(npr.org) | Continue reading
Tiera Fletcher carefully read through an artificial intelligence chatbot's attempt at rocket science. "That'strue, that's factual," she said thoughtfully as she scanned the AI-generated description of one of the most fundamental equations, known simply as "the rocket equation." T … | Continue reading
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. David Crosby, co-founder of the folk rock group Crosby, Stills & Nash and before that, a member of the Byrds, died last week at the age of 81.(npr.org) | Continue reading
People come from all around the world to ski Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon and its bucket list resort Alta, a fixture in skiing lore since 1939. "Oh my gosh the terrain here is just absolutely massive," says Kate Rath.(npr.org) | Continue reading
Fox News' attorneys have set out the starkest defense yet against the accusation the network defamed an election-technology company when it broadcast false claims that the company had cheated then-President Donald Trump of victory in the 2020 election.(npr.org) | Continue reading
Rich Osthoff told NPR that Santos — who went by Anthony Devolder — set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the veteran's dog in 2016. Santos never delivered the cash. The dog died months later. | Continue reading
The 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision would have been a day of celebration for many abortion-rights supporters. But this milestone anniversary, on January 22, falls just short of seven months after another landmark abortion decision: the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health … | Continue reading
Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong. | Continue reading
Over more than a half century, the driven celebrity journalist built one of the most remarkable careers in TV news. She was 93. | Continue reading
NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight , a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Television news producer Kristen Hentschel was doing precisely what journalists should do on a sear … | Continue reading
NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight , a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Terry Dunn couldn't fathom why Alabama's residents - among the poorest in the U.S. - pay some of th … | Continue reading
CAIRO - Iranian authorities arrested one of the country's most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said Saturday. The report by IRNA said Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning movie "The Salesman, … | Continue reading
Even guardians of America's atomic clocks say time doesn't work the way we think it does. | Continue reading
Longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl died on Friday while covering the Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal at the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar. As the match was winding down, an NPR reporter witnessed a commotion in the press tribune at Lusail Stadium. Reporters scattered as W … | Continue reading
The last time Rupert Murdoch testified about a scandal involving his company, it played out in public. He sought to convey contrition about the monstrous activities that had come to light inside one of his newsrooms while skirting any responsibility for it.(npr.org) | Continue reading
Political leaders have criticized former President Donald Trump's dinner with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier. | Continue reading
Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. Trump is expected to speak and widely expected to announce h … | Continue reading
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The American South in the post-Reconstruction era was a land of broken promises and brutal oppression for African Americans, as white leaders stripped former slaves of many of the civil and voting rights they'd won after the … | Continue reading
On what would've been Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep shares a memorable interview he did with the writer in 2006. Vonnegut died in 2007. | Continue reading
The IRS is increasing energy-related tax breaks, as well as standard deductions for single and married people and heads of households. | Continue reading
"You know, this image of Neanderthals being brutes, is not quite accurate," says paleogenticist Laurits Skov. "The more we learn about them, the more like humans they appear to be." | Continue reading
It's best to chop up and leave a thin layer of leaves in the grass. Rake excess amounts into a landscape bed or garden. | Continue reading
A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up. | Continue reading
Police are investigating after landscapers discovered a car contained unused bags of concrete buried in the yard of a 1.63-acre estate in the San Francisco Bay Area. | Continue reading
There's a well-established industry centered in California that provides surrogate births and attracts Chinese mothers to the U.S. to engage in what's known as birth tourism. | Continue reading
The suit alleged Google, Apple Intel and Adobe agreed not to recruit each others employees in order to drive down wages. | Continue reading
The 19-year-old chess grandmaster says the world champion has mounted a libelous campaign against him since Niemann defeated Carlsen in September. | Continue reading
More than half of these deaths occur well after the mom leaves the hospital. To save lives, mothers need more support in the "fourth trimester, that time after the baby is born," one researcher says. | Continue reading
"Madam, I'm Adam!" is child's play. Master palindromist Barry Duncan creates works of art that are paragraphs long and read the same forward and backward. The secret, he says, is finding the middle, "the letter on which the palindrome is going to pivot and turn." | Continue reading
Up to 50% of Europeans died from the plague. Now a new study shows that those who lived had a protective gene mutation they passed on to bolster immunity — but it comes at a cost. | Continue reading
This year's top prizes went to a teen from Thailand and an American who is just the fifth woman to win in 58 years. Karine Aigner spoke with NPR about the significance of the photo and the award. | Continue reading