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This year, five people have achieved the status of centibillionaires, i.e., people worth more than $100 billion. Among them is Tesla founder Elon Musk.

The Washington Post's Bob Woodward made headlines with the revelations in his new books about the Trump administration. NPR discusses why he didn't break news in his publication first.

New York City has gotten the coronavirus under control much more successfully than most parts of the U.S. But now it's dealing with severe economic consequences of the shutdown, according to a poll.

California's new law, AB5, aiming to reclassify some contract workers as employees, goes into effect on Wednesday. Industries are working to figure out how to comply, or work around the law.

Aqueducts once crucial to Rome's survival became trash dumps in more recent history. In one part of the ancient city, a couple of septuagenarians decided to do something about the dilapidated system.

Media coverage of college sports has been a mix of entertainment and boosterism. But today, as college athlete rights have become a major issue, the journalism is getting more hard-edged.

While the Freedom Rides of 1961 are an honored part of the Civil Rights movement, the response of Southern racists is less well-known. The Reverse Freedom Rides sent scores of African Americans north.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Valzhyna Mort about her poetry amid the political crisis in Belarus. Her new book of poems is called Music for the Dead and Resurrected.

While many Americans usher in the New Year by watching the ball drop in New York's Times Square, in dozens of Pennsylvania towns, residents celebrate with their own versions of the tradition.

Last winter the number of flu cases was pretty low — likely a result of COVID precautions people were taking. Does that mean we have fewer antibodies — and a greater risk of catching something now?

Stocks surged after Pfizer said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective and after former Vice President Joe Biden was elected president.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Efrén Olivares of the Texas Civil Rights Project, a group that's working with migrant families separated by U.S. officials at the southern border.

President Trump talked to Russian President Putin this week about arms control. Critics worry Trump could let a bilateral treaty lapse as he chases a new deal with Russia and China.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" made Nirvana's Kurt Cobain a reluctant spokesman for Generation X, and the song became an anthem for a generation that didn't want one.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, about how the port has been doing as the coronavirus pandemic continues.

Kent County, Mich. — a home to Betsy DeVos and Gerald Ford — has long been a loyal Republican stronghold. But it is also a suburban place that Democrats think they can win this November.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Daniel Pierce, a NASCAR historian and a University of North Carolina, Asheville professor, about the history of racism and the Confederate flag in stock car racing.

Ice is usually ephemeral; it doesn't last that long before melting. But some ice on our planet has stayed frozen for millions of years, according to scientists on a quest to find the oldest ice.

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells NPR that the military "will obey the lawful orders of civilian control of the military."

The U.S. condemned the test, which blasted a cloud of debris into orbit, forcing astronauts aboard the ISS to spend two hours inside spacecraft that could return them to Earth in an emergency.