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NPR speaks with former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance about how the pressure President Trump is putting on the Justice Department undermines the independence of the agency.

The Department of Justice has been in the news all week, both over its handling of the Epstein investigation and its search of a home of Trump's former national security adviser.

A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

Starting this season, shot attempts taken more than 36 feet from the basket will be counted against the team, not the player. These NBA "freebies" have drawn all types of reactions.

A lively review of cases when people both in front of and behind the camera took on a project that deviated from their past work, and whether it paid off or not.

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can be even hotter than researchers thought.

Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Philippines' ambassador to the U.S., details how Manila handles the power struggle between Beijing and Washington.

Gumbo was born in Louisiana. The rich stew is iconic, while also being deeply personal to each chef. And love of Gumbo is found everywhere. In San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, Chef Dontaye Ball is serving bowls of it to bring folks together.

Now that the start date of the papal conclave has been set for May 7, NPR walks through who'll be there and how they'll be electing the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Rep. Robert Garcia is the new top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. At a moment when his party is craving more confrontation with President Trump, he says he's ready to lean into the fray.

Wealth comes lined with rage and melancholy in a new Apple TV+ series about a hedge-fund hotshot who loses his job and begins to steal from his suburban friends.

The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit.