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Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about a range of China issues, from the administration's trade war with Beijing to China's growing advantage in biotechnology.

The Metropolitan Museum in New York City has hired a new director. Max Hollein takes over at a time of increased visitor numbers, but also as the institution deals with financial instability.

Allan Monga of Portland, Maine recently won the right to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud festival. He was initially barred because he's an asylum seeker and not a U.S. citizen.

Police in Youngstown, Ohio have received more than a dozen calls in the past three weeks about raccoons acting strangely. The state Department of Natural Resources says the animals were likely suffering from distemper, not rabies. The viral disease causes coughing, tremors, and seizures and leads raccoons to lose their fear of humans.

Emmanuel Macron has praised the courage and dedication of the hundreds of firefighters who helped save Notre Dame Cathedral. He gave them the medal of honor for their courage.

Scientists have recreated a pathway that senses pain, using clusters of human nerve cells grown in a dish.

The decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals further clears the way for the Trump administration to re-fire, for now, thousands of probationary federal employees.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it today? And do students still find it relevant?

When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out.

Colossal squid are known to be elusive and likely avoid the bright and loud research equipment used underwater.