NPR was built, in part, to explain the U.S. government to its citizens. It does much more than that, but as a Washington, D.C ...

A fierce debate in Taiwan over defense spending comes at a time when China continues to pressure the island and Washington's support is in question.

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 with author Alice Franklin about her debut novel, Life Hacks for a Little Alien.

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?

We look at where things stand with the 2 million federal workers weighing the Trump administrations offer to resign; massive cuts at USAID and how the Democrats are responding to these developments.

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

Patients who bought stockpiles of alternative GLP-1 drugs online aren't sure what to do with them after learning that the ...

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

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.

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.