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Former BBC North American Editor looks at what Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race means for American allies and adversaries.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Meredith McCarroll, co-editor of "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy," about the resonance and criticism of Sen. J.D. Vance's autobiography.

The champions of U.S. Supreme Court reform should first consider the record of nations that wound up packing and purging their judiciaries.

The U.S. and other governments issued Lebanon travel advisories and some airlines stopped flying there, in anticipation of an escalation of fighting after assassinations in Iran and Beirut.

The much-anticipated decision has rattled supporters of psychedelic therapies. The drugmaker says it will ask the agency to reconsider.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law last year requiring public schools to provide period products "to all menstruating students" in grades 4-12. Some Republicans are now criticizing him for it.

NPR asked readers and listeners to send in their questions about inflation. We took the most common ones — and got answers from economists.

The campaign tells NPR that it plans to invest in new digital ads on campus and social media, double its youth organizing staff around the country, and launch a college campus tour in battleground states.

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Canadian runner Corey Bellemore about holding the world record for running the beer mile and why this year's race may be his last.

Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was taken to a hospital in Israel, where members of his large Bedouin Arab family gathered around his bedside in a joyful reunion.

More than a million acres of rangeland have burned in Oregon this summer. At times the wildfires barely made headlines, but ranchers say the economic fallout will be huge.

The Israeli military said it carried out an airstrike on the headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations.

Mutombo spent his retirement on humanitarian causes. He spoke nine languages and founded the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, concentrating on improving the quality of life for people in the Congo.

For the first time since 1996, both major parties have picked a veteran for vice president — a fact that some veterans' groups are hoping it leads to greater understanding of military and vet issues.

The U.S. government and private sector are trying to solve a thorny problem. North Korean IT workers and hackers are infiltrating Fortune 500 companies to fund the regime's nuclear weapons program.

The mother of the suspect had called the Georgia high school before the fatal shooting of four people, warning staff of an “extreme emergency” involving her son, a relative told the Washington Post.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals.

Weekend Edition Saturday Host Scott Simon talks with bioethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University about Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that isolated human genes may not be patented — and the implications for that ruling.

A small cadre of officers is responsible for keeping America's nukes on alert 24/7. Here's a peek into their world, and what it takes to do the job.

The singer and actor's lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe is the latest in a string of high-profile cases filed right before portions of California's Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act expire.