As we approach 2026, the NPR Politics Podcast is taking a look back at the year that was in different political areas. Today, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the ...

The Department of Justice has been publicly posting files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since Friday.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

Sales of baking cookbooks are up about 80% over the past year, according to research group Circana. And that's bucking a downward trend in cookbooks overall.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with publisher Michael Szczerban about the new full English translation of the classic Italian cookbook, The Talisaman of Happiness by Ada Boni.

In the past 11 months, the Trump administration has stripped more than 1.6 million people of legal status. NPR’s Ximena Bustillo shares more about the largest removal of deportation protections from ...

TV critic David Bianculli says 2025 offered so many great shows he couldn't narrow them down. But in a year of intense TV, Netflix's haunting series Adolescence, stands apart.

One of Vince Zampella's crowning achievements was the creation of the Call of Duty franchise, which has sold more than half a billion games worldwide.

Photographs help us look back on the moments that defined the year. Taken by NPR photojournalists nationwide, this collection goes beyond the headlines to reveal quietly powerful human stories.

Our most popular global health and development stories in 2025 covered the human impact of the upheaval in U.S. foreign aid, surprising news about familiar diseases and the beauty of earth captured by ...

About 5.5 million borrowers are currently in default. They haven't risked wage garnishment since the beginning of the pandemic, when policymakers paused the practice.