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U.S. employers added 50,000 jobs in December, according to a report from the Labor Department Friday. Measured annually, job gains in 2025 were the slowest since 2020.

More than 150,000 federal workers have resigned, according to The New York Times. That number does not include the thousands of people who were laid off or fired.

For the first time since their team folded in 1981, the first professional women’s basketball team in San Francisco reunites in the Bay Area.

Emile DeWeaver lives in Oakland. His book, "Ghost in a Criminal Justice Machine," came out in May 2025. It's about his journey through prison and what he learned about criminal justice and white supremacy.

Venezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace".

Today, we're rolling it way back to meet the first professional women's basketball players in the Bay. It’s Bay Area women’s basketball history on episode seven of BOUNCE!

In the latest movie from Park Chan-wook, the director behind The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave, a paper factory worker loses his job — and resolves to kill his competition for a new one.

Today is Skyscraper Day!

Hundreds of somber demonstrators took to Minneapolis' frozen streets to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Elliot Williams, a former U.S. deputy assistant attorney general, about the Trump administration's narrative around the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent.

NASA is ending its Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station a month early. The agency announced one of the four crew members has a "serious medical condition" and needs to return to Earth.

Here's how to send your questions and curiosities to the NPR team covering the Winter Olympics in Milan.