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The U.S. intelligence community concludes it's "very unlikely" a foreign country is responsible for the so-called Havana Syndrome ailments involving U.S. officials working abroad.

Ohio lawmakers are forging ahead, trying again to modify the state’s recreational cannabis laws, which were enacted via the ballot box in November 2023.

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.

The federal debt reached $40 trillion as the government adds red ink at a rapid rate. That's leading nervous investors to demand higher interest rates — pushing up borrowing costs for everyone else.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

July's crop of notable releases features new work from Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nuñez, Daniel Mason and Nathaniel Rich. Plus, new nonfiction from award-winning journalists.

David Greene talks to Marc Lotter, adviser to Trump's 2020 campaign, about the GOP's muted response to the guilty plea of Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen. NPR's Domenico Montanaro weighs in.

A wall of flames prevented Jeff Evans from evacuating the California town of Concow during the Camp Fire. He tells Rachel Martin how he survived and how he has spent his days since.

Author and podcaster Jacob Goldstein says we don't think of money as a technology, but we should. He traces the first paper currency to China's Sichuan province, and ponders the Fed's next move.

Some landlords got hurt by tenants who took advantage of eviction bans during the pandemic. Now they can't get any help from a massive $47 billion federal rental assistance program.