The effort is focused on bringing the organization in line with President Trump's cultural directives ahead of the country's 250th anniversary celebrations.

The president will meet with Putin on Friday in Alaska. A former secret service agent shares how the service plans last minute trips like this, especially one with major geopolitical implications.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

The TV prequel to the Alien movies calls back to the best elements of those original films — including questions about ...

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Home and rent prices are sky high in part because of a massive housing shortage. Utah is among a growing number of states trying to force cities to build more affordable places. NPR’s Jennifer Ludden ...

The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: leave now voluntarily, or you’ll be detained and deported.

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

President Trump's announcement on Truth Social that the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors recipients would be announced ...