Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape ...

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Christan Jacobs and Scott Schultz, the creators of Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, about the show's second season and the music that drives its fun.

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.

Researchers looking at foodcrusts on the pottery shards of ancient humans say there's evidence of a wide variety of ingredients, indicating that they may have been experimenting with "recipes." ...

President Trump has touted apprenticeships as part of his promise of a golden era for American workers. But are his ...

In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on ...

China's Foreign Ministry criticized the Trump administration's trade investigation as a "pretext" for tariffs. Meanwhile, ...

Attacks by Iran have already nearly halted the flow of oil through the vital waterway as commercial ship crews fear being hit ...

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New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins tells NPR's Scott Simon about Marco Rubio's role as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to a president shaking the world order.