The upheaval to the federal workforce in 2025 drove tens of thousands of federal employees to leave their jobs. One former employee of the Veterans Health Administration reflects on the year.

President Trump has built a brand as the sports-fan-in-chief, attending roughly a dozen major sporting events so far this ...

As a nervous teenage cashier on her first day during the Christmas rush, Stephanie froze at the register — until a customer gently told her, "It's alright. Take your time." ...

Washington, D.C., set a world record of most couples kissing underneath the mistletoe. Exactly 1,435 couples turned up to ...

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the comedian Aparna Nancherla about her first full-length comedy special, Hopeful Potato, and the anxiety and depression that once kept her off stage.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Deborah Lipstadt who served as Special Envoy for monitoring antisemitism in the Biden administration about the attack on the Jewish community celebrating Chanukah.

A gunman killed two students and injured nine others in a Brown University classroom Saturday afternoon. The suspect remains ...

This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...

Zadie Smith returns to talk with Terry Gross about her new collection of essays, 'Dead and Alive.' She reflects on the "nonsense" of generational discourse, being raised by TV, and her obsession with ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to tightly control the news that comes out of the Pentagon — even as he deals with the ...

The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement ...