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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with American diplomat John Negroponte about Nikki Haley's resignation from her role as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

The league had come under fire for the pay gap in its prize money. "I honestly didn't see it coming," said Carissa Moore, a three-time world champion.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Joan Shelley's new song, and an HBO reality show that sets up single parents.

Hours after a federal appeals court declined I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's request to delay his prison sentence, President Bush commutes the former White House aide's sentence.

There was a time when many thought the Internet was beyond government regulation, its very chaos a source of creativity and strength. Nate Anderson's The Internet Police looks at how law enforcement went about changing that.

This simple question posed by ecologist Fred Smith led to profound discoveries about delicate balance and styles of regulation in healthy ecosystems, a topic covered in a new book Alva Noë considers.

Stephen Dunn's 17th collection of poetry, Lines of Defense, includes several works meditating on the death of his brother. Dunn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, often features everyday details in his work — because, as he tells NPR's Rachel Martin, "we live with the little things much more than the large things."

Tim Scott and Mike Pence have dropped their bids for president, and the next GOP debate in less than a month will likely feature an even smaller stage, but Trump is still the far-and-away frontrunner.

Richard Powers' new novel tells the story of an avant-garde classical composer who finds himself dabbling in DNA. He "gets obsessed with finding music inside of living things," Powers explains, and, as a fugitive, ends up leading officials on a low-speed chase.

In 2010, just minutes after sitting in on an interview with President Obama, NPR's Madhulika Sikka got a life-changing phone call: She had breast cancer. Her new book is a guide to what happens next.