From: Eva Rodriguez, Vice President and Executive Editor, NPR. This cohort met for the last time August 30 to review NPR’s coverage from the Biden-Trump debate on June 27 through Biden’s July 21 decision to step out of the 2024 presidential campaign. The Cohort:. Amina Khan, Editor, Science...

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama, a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, sun cream and ponchos. Tour operators and vendors call out to visitors in English in...

The wealth and poverty of nations has been a preoccupation of economists since Adam Smith founded the discipline 250 years ago, when he wrote a book titled, The Wealth of Nations. This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three men who traced the institutional roots of national prosperity...

LISTEN: GPB's Ambria Burton talks to Atlanta mother Mary Cota Reed about the her life as a parental caregiver to her 8-year-old daughter, Catherine, who has hypotonia cerebral palsy. Caregiving is big business, but it's also at the heart of many American families. In 2024, the U.S. News and World...

A new election law that could take effect this week would provide poll watchers with greater access to voters and election workers after the polls open on Tuesday for early voting for Georgia’s highly anticipated general election. Georgia election officials, political parties, voting rights groups, and election security watchdogs...

PHILADELPHIA — Exactly a month before Election Day, James Delos Reyes was waiting in the parking lot of Philadelphia’s only Jollibee. This branch of the Filipino fast food chain has become the de facto meet-up spot for canvassers for the Asian and Pacific Islander Political Alliance (APIPA) — a group that is knocking on doors every day until the election for Vice President Harris and other candidates they’ve endorsed.

Eden Alonso-Rivera told herself, I have nothing to lose. The 16-year-old junior at Grandville High School in Grandville, Mich., opened her bedside drawer and pulled out something precious: A bundle of letters and sketches her father had sent from jail. The two are no longer in touch. For Eden, these letters aren't just from her father; they are her father.

More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the Central California coast. The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S. The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous...

It can be hard to talk about politics, even with the people we love. About 1 in 4 people in the U.S. say they’ve ended a friendship due to political disagreements. And many voters say they have few or no friends on the other side of the political aisle.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — China deployed an aircraft carrier, other ships and warplanes in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, simulating the sealing off of key ports in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait. China’s Defense Ministry said the drills were...

LONGBOAT KEY, Florida — When Hurricane Milton hit, the Seabaugh family was in the dark — literally and figuratively. Hurricane Milton’s strong winds knocked out power and Wi-Fi, so they couldn’t check on their property through their home’s security cameras. For nearly two days, because...

Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging Monday to legalize recreational marijuana, protect cryptocurrency assets and give 1 million loans to Black entrepreneurs, as part of her efforts to court Black voters who may be pivotal in the presidential race. Polls show that some Black men may be gravitating toward former...

Health workers are gearing up to administer a second dose of the polio vaccine to some 590,000 children in Gaza starting Monday. The first round of the large-scale vaccination campaign took place last month and was widely regarded as a success. About 590,000 children under the age of 10 — representing about 95% of eligible children — were vaccinated against polio in the span of 12 days, according to the World Health Organization.

A spacecraft that will study one of Jupiter’s moons is set to launch Monday on a journey of more than six years to discover if the moon has the ability to support life. The solar-powered spacecraft Europa Clipper is scheduled to ascend through Earth’s atmosphere on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday afternoon.

Legendary journalist Bob Woodward’s new book War — like so many of his books about the American presidency over the last half century — is generating headlines. Like the one about the COVID test machine then President Donald Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin in the early days of the pandemic.

I was in the mood for a novel about family relationships, something Cheever-esque. Maybe, I thought, a sharp, contained work of fiction would be a temporary antidote to a world that feels out of control. Because I admired Betsy Lerner’s 2016 memoir The Bridge Ladies, I thought her new debut...

In a remote corner of northwestern Utah, there isn’t a rock, or tree, or even a blade of grass in sight — just miles and miles of salt in every direction. It’s here, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, where race car driver Craig Breedlove shattered the land speed record 60 years ago this week.

NEW DELHI — A senior politician in India's financial capital, Mumbai, who was also known for his close ties with Bollywood has been shot dead weeks before a key state election. Baba Siddique, 66, was shot multiple times outside his son's office in Mumbai on Saturday night, police said...

TEL AVIV — Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a drone attack that wounded more than 60 Israelis, including several in critical condition. The assault, which took place in the central Israeli city of Binyamina, is one of the most serious mass casualty attacks the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group has caused in the country.