NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the trade deadline in the NBA.

China's tariff's on U.S. agricultural exports hit American farmers hard back in 2019. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with farmer Josh Gackle about the impacts of another round of such tariffs.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Peter McPherson, a former administrator of the US Agency for International Development, about the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency.

We'll look at the latest developments in the instability and violence in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed fighters are battling Congolese troops.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to husband-and-wife duo Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff from the band, Nefesh Mountain, about their latest album, "Beacons." ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation." ...

Scott Bessent, who was confirmed as ... Bessent replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday. In an internal email shared with NPR, staff members were instructed to immediately cease much ...

Five years after the pandemic, have Broadway audiences come back? And what musicals and plays are opening, in the weeks ahead, that might draw in crowds?

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Alice Franklin about her debut novel, Life Hacks for a Little Alien.

NPR's Up First is the news you need to start ... Also available on Saturdays at 9 a.m. ET, with Ayesha Rascoe and Scott Simon. On Sundays, hear a longer exploration behind the headlines with ...

The Trump administration plans to lay off almost all of USAID's staff of nearly 13,000. We look at where it leaves the agency, which administers and provides the majority of U.S. foreign assistance.

There are many places outside of Washington DC that will suffer from an abrupt cut in the size of the federal government. We look at one of those places, the Kansas city metro area.