The Conservative Political Action Conference, which meets on Saturday, has shifted toward President Trump and away from ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is expected to be Germany's next chancellor.

Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high ...

At a pivotal time for Europe and NATO, Germany holds elections on Sunday. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution about the stakes of the election.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...

Indigenous fire stewardship practices have existed for millennia in California. A new art exhibition in Los Angeles challenges visitors to rethink their own relationships with fire.

Even though pastors are in the business of providing emotional support for their congregants, it's rare for churches to actually employ therapists. One pastor at a Baptist church in Harlem is battling ...

An Alaska-based employee of the Small Business Administration provided disaster recovery support to small businesses. He was among those fired by the Trump administration in a chaotic process.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant recap a week of intense international hockey and discuss a scary diagnosis for a rising NBA star.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Austan Goolsbee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago about consumer sentiment and inflation.

We hear from musicians Grady Allen and Dante Melucci from the band Anxious, about their second album "Bambi." The young ...

Two new memoirs, How to Sell Out and Trauma Plot wrestle with the question — is it worth it to mine the worst parts of your life for a book? Authors Chad Sanders and Jamie Hood talk about how they ...