Think you know the answer? To find out, listen to this new installment of the Wait Wait Wayback Machine, our game just for NPR+ supporters. In this bonus episode, you also get to hear Peter Sagal ...

A 50th birthday trip to Ghana and Senegal sparked a new picture book called That You Are Here is No Small Thing, which guides children through Black American history.

Rosanne Cash was 18 when her famous dad gave her a list of 100 essential country songs he thought she needed to know. She's ...

A selective peek at the comedies, adventures, romances and awards contenders opening in cinemas between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.

President Trump is transforming Washington. New York Magazine's Ben Terris says the ballroom, the planned arch and other changes are an attempt to achieve "architectural immortality." ...

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, says it's creating a framework for what it calls "misalignment disclosures," which means making public incidents where artificial intelligence models do things that ...

In this encore episode, we examine the booming population along coastal corridor from the cities Lagos to Abidjan.  It has ...

For Labor Day, we’re listening back to our 2009 interview with Rosanne Cash. When she was 18, in 1973, her father Johnny Cash gave her a list of 100 essential country songs he thought she should know.

How did you celebrate July 4 this year? What did the country’s landmark 250th anniversary, in honor of the founding of the ...

Russia is calling this weekend's shuttle diplomacy by White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Ukraine's capital Kyiv "a small step" toward ending that conflict — but the ...

Labor Day marks the unofficial start to the general election season, with the first mail-in ballots sent to voters on Friday.

Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live ...