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The creation of the automobile gave rise to a new kind of freedom and privacy, while also transforming Los Angeles into the sprawling, car-centric metropolis it is today.

The hostage-for-prisoner exchange is expected to continue on Wednesday. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is dire and the military situation volatile.

The startling 101.1 reading was recorded in Manatee Bay, near Everglades National Park. The rising ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, are already endangering nearby coral, experts say.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sonia Omar, CEO of Education for All, which runs an all-girls school in Morocco's Atlas Mountains that was hit by Friday's powerful earthquake.

The Washington Commanders might be sold for a record $6 billion. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation.

3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to vets and service members who suffered hearing loss due to faulty earplugs. The quarter million people who filed claims must decide if they'll join the settlement.

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" shows up on the U.K. charts every year, but never this early in November. And Wham!'s 1984 song "Last Christmas" is sitting at No. 37.

In a year when the industry bet on fresh tech and virtual worlds, NPR's hip-hop and R&B editor found these albums powerfully immersive all on their own.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Illinois state Representative Abdelnasser Rashid about the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian American boy in what prosecutors call a hate crime.

In the film, Macaulay Culkin's character makes his way to a house at 51 West 95th Street, where he battles bandits. Scenes were shot at a studio but tourists take photos in front of the real building.

A 6-year-old Palestinian American boy was fatally stabbed and his mother serious injured in a Chicago suburb over the weekend in what authorities are calling a hate-crime killing.

NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.