A federal immigration agent on Sunday shot and injured a man in Austin, authorities said. Austin Councilmember Mike Siegel spoke to NPR from the scene of the shooting, which is just blocks from his ...

The lions were found dead inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a popular wildlife reserve in Tanzania. Deaths raise ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has faced a major electoral setback in two state elections, with his center-right party ...

In the bustling heart of the southern Indian city of Chennai is a market that never sleeps, where residents from the poorest ...

In the Lower Ninth Ward, an old Family Dollar stands covered in graffiti. It looks abandoned. But inside, it's a treasure ...

At Bayou Bar, music and food go hand in hand. Which is why a new cookbook from chef Brian Landry and bandleader Peter Harris has recipes from the menu and stories from the musicians who play there.

Fox Corp. must turn over hundreds of documents that could shed light on how founder Rupert Murdoch handled some of his media companies' biggest scandals.

Grandparents taking care of their grandkids is nothing new. But the surging cost of childcare in the U.S. has made familial ...

With her 1974 book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard became the youngest woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. We take a ...

The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.

Five years after the return of Taliban rule, NPR visited Kabul to see how Afghans are dealing with their new government's strict social restrictions.

Weekend Edition's Scott Simon talks with author Nathan Hale about his kids' graphic history book, "One Dead Spy." It's the story of Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, no relation to the author.