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The Senate voted around 2 a.m. Friday to confirm retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump plucked him from retirement to be his top military adviser.

President Trump has repeatedly called tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." NPR's Word of the Week explores how they got their name.

Boni Speer, left, and her daughter, Tracy Balhan, lost her husband, Bill, to dementia last year.

Superintendent Michael Robinson was accused of creating a hostile work environment and bullying staff, allegations which were backed up by an investigation. The board voted 4-3 at its Monday meeting to accept his resignation.

President Trump is no fan of the free press. But he's not the only powerful person in the U.S. using the courts to silence unfavorable coverage, a New York Times editor and author tells NPR.

We played hours of Nintendo Switch 2 games the same day President Trump announced new global tariffs. Despite the hefty price tag, it's a solid evolution of one of the world's most popular consoles.

Playboi Carti's supersized blockbuster MUSIC holds at No. 1 in its second week of release. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1and Morgan Wallen charts a fifth top 10 hit from an album that isn't even out yet.

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

Springtime means cherry blossoms in the nation's capital. On a recent breezy morning, with peak bloom still two days away, the Tidal Basin was packed with both blossoms and visitors.

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, indie studios showed off ambitious games made by small development teams.