In Meg Medina's new novel, a young girl becomes a sea ghost and must learn to find meaning in the afterlife. She talks to NPR's Scott Simon about "Graciela in the Abyss." ...

On "Winged Victory", songwriter Willi Carlisle weaves between the absurd and the sentimental. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carlisle about the 11 tracks of originals and covers.

Lakeland’s board of trustees hired Rusty Taylor, the superintendent at Naco Elementary School District in Arizona, Wednesday evening.

Budapest Pride event has been banned by Viktor Orban's government. But NPR's Rob Schmitz tells Scott Simon it's going ahead anyway.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting ...

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no ...

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship.

President Trump said he has had a "big week" between Supreme Court rulings, a ceasefire in Iran and a new NATO pledge. But a couple major promises remain unmet.

A political committee that helped defeat last year’s ballot measure to repeal a Washington climate law was fined $20,000 on ...

After surviving many close calls as a war correspondent, Norland was diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor in 2019. He died June 22. In this 2024 interview, he reflected on facing mortality.

Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993.

A U.S. Marine veteran and son of a man whose violent arrest went viral, said his father always prioritized he and his two ...