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The Trump administration's massive aid cuts have implications for humanitarian workers around the globe. USAID was a bedrock for non-profits and UN agencies, who are now trying to figure out a way to work without US leadership.

President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter -- despite repeated pledges that he would not pardon him. Hunter Biden was convicted of gun crimes and pleaded guilty to tax crimes.

House Democrats were gathered in Virginia for their annual issues conference when they received the news that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was planning to vote to advance a GOP-spending bill.

In Europe, there's now a sense of a "broken relationship" in discovering "the extent of American hostility," one French analyst says. "But like in love, there is life after a breakup."

NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

NASA has announced it is moving forward with several plans to return rock samples from Mars.

This year brings memoirs from more than a dozen famous names — from Brooke Shields and Dawn Staley to Bill Belichick and Lionel Ritchie.

As San Francisco’s mayoral race enters its final stretch, two rivals vying to unseat London Breed, have formed an unlikely alliance. Former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, a moderate, and progressive Supervisor Ahsha Safai, have urged their supporters to list each other as the second choice on the city’s ranked choice ballots. Will this unlikely arrangement strengthen the bid of either, or weaken both? Recently, I spoke to Mission Local Managing Editor/Columnist Joe Eskenazi about the Farrell-Safai tandem.

Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores are higher now than they were in 2019, before the pandemic. This is the story of how the state pulled it off.

The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with theater producer Jeffrey Seller about his new book, "Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir."