Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai took the stand this week. He faces charges in connection with the 2019 anti-government protests in the region. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with his son, Sebastien Lai.

The seven states that share the Colorado River have a 2026 deadline for a new sharing agreement. The Biden administration this week encouraged them to hurry, in an apparent attempt to limit the ...

President-elect Trump plans to nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. He's been on of Trump's biggest cheerleaders in the financial world.

We look at Matt Gaetz removing himself from his nomination as Attorney General as well as a few of the cabinet nominations that President-elect Donald Trump announced on Friday night.

The Trump administration nominee for secretary of defense calls women in combat roles a mistake. Critics fear it's yet another signal that policies that engage with a changing America could be on the ...

While swing states were going for Donald Trump, Wyoming was an already red state that saw its legislature move even further to the right — with the Freedom Caucus taking charge.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with musician Father John Misty — real name Josh Tillman — about his new album. Its title comes from a Sanskrit word, "Mahashmashana." ...

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and ...

Thanksgiving favorites such as mac and cheese, turkey and casseroles can be brought through TSA checkpoints. But cranberry ...

Long time U.S. soccer player Dax McCarty is trying to retire. The problem is the team he's playing with keeps winning in the MLS playoffs.

The strikes were the fourth on Beirut in less than a week. The escalation comes after a U.S. envoy traveled to the region ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.