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After two master's degrees and three children, Hilary Gordon is one of the women who now make up more than half of the contractors at food delivery apps like Instacart. NPR spent a day with her.

Lori Anne Gravley began recording poems for Conrad’s Corner in 2015, and she quickly began helping Conrad produce the program during his extensive travels. She has published her own poems widely in literary magazines and anthologies and has recently completed a chapbook “We Say Water” and a full-length collection, Turbulence. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best New Poets. When she isn’t wandering in the world, she lives in Yellow Springs with her husband, two dogs, and an ever changing variety of stringed instruments.

Americans say they're sick of this year's election campaign, that they're switching off the news. Ratings for prime-time TV are down, but cable news networks are seeing higher ratings than ever.

This week's itinerary is a doozy: we’ll visit Spain and Russia in addition to our more usual haunts. We’ll rock steady with Desmond Dekker, get soulful...

In Our Daily Breather, we ask writers and artists to recommend ways to find calm and comfort in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. For Angelica Garcia, ranchera music provides a release.

The Cleveland Indians have been overhauling the roster so far this offseason. And, while some moves were anticipated with a bevy of players becoming...

Trieste Belmont says small kindnesses can be more powerful than we realize.

Didn't catch the rare spectacle? We've rounded up some photos of the celestial event, snapped as the moon charted its path over U.S. skies.

China's economy contracted by 6.8% in the first three months of 2020 from the same period a year ago — its biggest drop since 1992.

Ohio State University football coach Urban Meyer could have easily stoked a debate about expanding the four-team College Football Playoff after his…