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768 episodes transcribedFor the first time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives removed its speaker. Who will fill the vacant seat? Roman Catholic leaders are meetin...
Ukraine's war is far from over. It's biggest challenge, however, may not be on the battlefield, but in the form of waning support from allies. How are...
Lawmakers narrowly avoided a government shutdown by passing a short-term spending measure over the weekend. But to do that the Republican speaker of t...
In Colorado, the first of two trials is underway in the death of Elijah McClain.On a late summer night in 2019, McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, was...
The US government is set to shutdown Sunday after a group of GOP hardliners opposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's stop gap proposal. Tens of millions...
With less than 48 hours left to avoid a government shutdown, the White House is already preparing to manage the fallout. NPR's Asma Khalid spoke with...
Republican candidates for the presidential nomination finally got around to criticize the frontrunner Donald Trump. House Republicans will hold the fi...
Seven Republican candidates will be on stage for the second presidential debate in California on Wednesday. Former President Donald Trump will skip th...
President Biden will join striking auto workers in Detroit on Tuesday. He has a chance to be the first sitting president to stand on a picket line. La...
TV and movie writers have reached a tentative deal with Hollywood studios that could soon end a nearly five-month strike. Union members still have to...
Today on The Sunday Story, NPR's Daniel Estrin talks about his four-year long investigation into the night that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, founder of ISIS,...
President Biden is going to Michigan to support the United Auto Workers' union strikes. A government shutdown looms large after members of the House G...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that more foreign aid is necessary to beat back Vladimir Putin's ambitions to expand...
The UAW is set to expand its strike if automakers fail to meet a deadline, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed by more than 11,000 mig...
House Republicans can't agree on a stopgap government spending bill, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and lawsui...
President Biden speaks at the United Nations General Assembly, five prisoners are on their way back to the US after a prisoner swap with Iran and Cana...
Auto plants shut down amid a walkout against all Big Three automakers, Tens of thousands of people kick off a week of climate protests in New York and...
South Africa has long been one of the world's largest consumers of coal. But the country is now in the midst of transitioning its energy supply from c...
People in New England prepare as post-tropical cyclone Lee bears down on the region. The United Auto Workers union is still on strike, demanding high...
Members of the United Auto Workers walked off work at three select plants and are threatening to expand the strike. Florida's COVID vaccine guidance c...
