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President Trump's budget package threatens to increase the deficit, while his tariff threats — the most recent of which was Friday — destabilize global trade.
As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Army Major Carol Kirk. She deployed to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1969 and remembers some of the men she cared for.
Two non-verbal actors have been case in a new opera, opening this week in Omaha. The production has worked for five years to develop technology to give them voice.
Author Yiyun Li has lost two teenage sons to suicide. Her new book is about how to think about life after the unimaginable.
NPR Scott Simon talks to Adam Roberts about his debut novel, "Food Person." It's about a food writer ghostwriting a cookbook for a celebrity who doesn't actually like food.
Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98.
Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sit-com "Cheers." He ...
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention ...
You're going to die eventually, and there's nothing you can do about it. Final Destination Bloodlines is the sixth installment.
Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday in May, is a day to honor and mourn fallen military service members. NPR readers ...
The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...
Khalil's lawyers are trying to convince an immigration judge that if he's deported, Israel could target him over his advocacy ...