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The Obama Foundation has raised more than $250 million to build the Obama Presidential Center. Key to the Foundation's mission are programs to train the next generation of civic leaders.

A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.

The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

After the 12-day war in June, the issue of who will succeed Iran's longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has become more urgent.

Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza's most recognized television journalist.

In Japan, Konbini convenience stores have become part of the country's infrastructure, offering fresh meals delivered several times a day, tickets to concerts and museums, and even services like bill payments. Now the model is coming to the U.S., where critics question whether it will resonate with American customers.

President Trump issues his first vetoes of his second term.

Downtown Phoenix businesses sued the city over a sprawling homeless encampment. The city's solution appears successful two years later, but funding for it is set to run out.

The Gaza ceasefire is holding and badly needed aid is flowing into the territory in large quantities. Meanwhile, Israel announces a new military operation against Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank.

Google has begun testing a new self-driving car this summer that is designed to work without a steering wheel. But as the Planet Money team reports, the company's biggest challenge may be convincing Americans to hop inside.

After the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., some students feel like they're being left out of the national discussion about gun violence — even though they were already talking about guns before the shooting happened.

Searchlights illuminate the sky between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, but they have nothing to do with border enforcement. They're part of a large-scale binational art installation.

Adams managed to turn his failure at office work into a gigantic success — a syndicated comic strip about a hapless, cubicle-bound engineer. In his new book, How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big, Adams offers some sage advice such as: "Goals are for losers."

An AI imposter is making calls to officials. Who is the AI imposter impersonating? United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

In the federal court system, law clerks find little recourse for bullying and abuse from federal judges, according to a new NPR Investigation.

He may have made it to the stage of La Scala at 23, but the so-called "next Pavarotti" says patience and moderation have been guiding principles in his career.

The First Amendment champion and lifelong jazz enthusiast authored dozens of books and regularly contributed to several newspapers, in a writing career spanning more than six decades.

Germany has banned an interactive doll manufactured by an American company that German regulators charge can spy on children and collect personal data from them and their parents. But some consumer watchdogs say the ban alone is not enough.

Music critic John Brady reviews the album Sno Angel Like You by Howe Gelb. The album features Gelb's country guitar paired with a full gospel choir.

A fire burned down Neko Case's home as she recorded Hell-On, but on its album cover, wearing a warrior helmet of cigarettes, she wields the element's power.