The 40th MTV Video Music Awards celebrated some of today’s biggest names and songs, as well as the show’s own storied history. The star-studded affair, broadcast from the UBS Arena in New York late Wednesday, featured several hours’ worth of presentations and performances — including from pop stars Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, rap legend LL Cool J and the evening’s host, Megan Thee Stallion.

Keurig has agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with making misleading statements about just how recyclable its popular K-Cup single-use coffee pods are. Questions over whether the single-use, hard-to-recycle plastic Keurig K-Cups are environmentally friendly have hovered over the company...

Yorba Linda is a small, sunny city southeast of Los Angeles. It’s perhaps best known for being the birthplace of President Richard Nixon. But in the past few years, Yorba Linda has picked up another distinction: It’s home to the nation’s largest per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) water treatment plant of its kind, according to the city.

NEW YORK — Disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges in New York ahead of a retrial in his landmark #MeToo case, Manhattan prosecutors said at a court hearing Thursday. The indictment will remain under seal until Weinstein is arraigned on the new...

New York’s appeals court is keeping in place a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump, striking down his latest attempt to get the order lifted. The gag order, put in place by New York's Judge Juan Merchan, prevents the current Republican presidential nominee from speaking about court staff, prosecutors or their families. Merchan had previously said the order would be lifted after Trump is sentenced. Last week, Merchan pushed that sentencing off to Nov. 26, after the election.

Maybe you’ve heard: They’re making another Batman-without-Batman show. I know, right? Another one. As a concept, Batman-without-Batman is a big slobbery tennis ball, and the culture is the Golden Retriever who keeps dropping it in your lap and looking up at you expectantly. Who could blame you for shooing the mutt away, right? Enough is enough.

Fourteen presidential electors linked to efforts to reverse former President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat are currently back on their states’ Republican slates of representatives to the Electoral College for the 2024 election. Four years ago, what have been known as “fake electors” gathered in seven mainly swing states...

On FX’s series The Old Man, Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow play frenemies of a sort – men who worked together and clashed in the intelligence world, eventually compelled to join forces. But in real life, watching the two actors trade quips and stories sitting next to each...

INDIANAPOLIS — A'ja Wilson broke the WNBA single-season scoring record just before the first half of the Las Vegas Aces' game against the Indiana Fever on Wednesday night. Wilson hit a jumper from the free throw line with 26.4 seconds left in the second quarter to surpass the previous mark of 939 points set by Jewell Loyd in 2023. The Aces' two-time league MVP came into the game averaging 27.3 points and 11.9 rebounds.

NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — The United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip says Israeli airstrikes hit a school that was sheltering families in central Gaza, killing six of its employees. The U.N. agency, UNRWA, says this is the fifth time the al-Jaouni school...

Nearly a dozen arts workers in New York City have recently left their jobs or been fired over conflict with their employers about expressing solidarity with Palestinian suffering. Two workers at the Noguchi Museum told NPR they were among three who said they were fired last week for wearing keffiyehs,...

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi helped talk a woman off the ledge of a bridge in Nashville this week, bringing a new meaning to “Keep the Faith.”. The Metro Nashville Police Department tweeted on Wednesday that Bon Jovi and his team had persuaded the distressed, unidentified woman to come “off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety.”

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. What we eat plays a role in the health of our environment. Here are some things to consider when trying to make doable changes to improve your impact without breaking the bank.

Across the internet, Afghan women are committing what would be a crime in their homeland, ruled by the Taliban: They're singing, like Fatima Etimadi, 34, and her girlfriends, belting out this defiant tune, a little out of tune:. “The flower will unfurl, revealing a spring of freedom,” they chant. “I...

Over the years, NPR (and our blog) have reported on the global effort to eliminate cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine introduced in 2007. Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is a group of over 200 viruses that are common in humans. Most types don’t cause any problems, but some can develop into diseases such as genital warts or cancer, and 99% of the world’s 660,000 annual cases of cervical cancers are caused by two strains, which can be sexually transmitted.

An internet entrepreneur and a SpaceX engineer have become the first private astronauts to walk in space. Jared Isaacman, who has amassed a fortune through his online payment company Shift4, paid for the mission, known as Polaris Dawn. Just before 7 a.m. ET, Isaacman pulled open the hatch and floated outside.

E-cigarette use among young people in the U.S. dropped significantly over the past year, according to a new government study. The hopeful signs come as more schools are installing high-tech vape detectors in bathrooms and locker rooms to curb student use of e-cigarettes. Some districts are using money from a...

Francine is no longer a hurricane after being downgraded late Wednesday to a tropical depression. The storm is weakening rapidly, after making landfall in Louisiana earlier on Wednesday. Communities are coping with cleanup and power outages, but forecasters also say that farther inland, the storm still packs a serious threat...

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as Tropical Storm Francine moved farther inland. At 4 a.m. CDT, the center of the storm was 60 miles north of New Orleans and carrying maximum sustained...

This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. In 2013, Janet Kahn-Scolaro's sister, Susan Kahn, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. About a year later, she was admitted to a hospital in Bronxville, New York.