Search results for

NPR's Mia Venkat explains to All Things Considered host Scott Detrow who the internet has been obsessed with this week.

We hear from Myles Lock who will be a volunteer runner setting a pace for other runners in this weekend's TCS NYC Marathon.

Among the hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers -- interns. We speak to a few who'd hoped to gain experience working in House offices.

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands.

The ouija board may now be the stuff of slumber parties and freaking yourself out with your friends, but has its roots in the much heavier spiritualist movement of the 1800s.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Florence Welch, who heads Florence and the Machine, about her new album, Everybody Scream.

Relations between the two neighbors hit a low point this month, with fighting killing people on both sides of the border. At issue is a rise in militancy in Pakistan since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

Two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funding to provide SNAP benefits. But it's unclear how much, or when, those funds would be provided before the funding runs dry.

Because of the shutdown, millions across the country won’t have access to their SNAP, or food stamp benefits, in November. But some Bay Area restaurants are picking up the slack.

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

Some 42 million people in the U.S. who rely on SNAP benefits could soon join the already long lines at the nation's food banks and pantries that are also serving struggling federal workers.

When federal money for child care ran out, Arizona stepped up.