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Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck.

Comfort foods like fish and chips in the U.K. are often cheap dishes with humble origins. But economic headwinds are putting the squeeze on owners of fish and chip shops.

The play Roe, based on the Supreme Court case, was recently performed in Louisiana, where abortion is now severely restricted.

Ski patrol has long been seen as fun, seasonal job. But it's also vital to the multibillion dollar ski industry, and now patrollers are unionizing in the face of astronomical resort housing prices.

California is the latest state in a growing movement across the country to require media literacy education for all grade levels.

When luggage and its owner can't be reunited, airlines sell it to a store in Alabama, where its contents are sold to the public. The result is a grab bag of normal and odd things people travel with.

Rioters in Dublin torched several city buses and police vehicles, and damaged more than a dozen storefronts in the city. It all began with knife attack on Thursday, which left several wounded.

It's Black Friday — one of the biggest days for retail spending, when companies slash prices to get us to buy more stuff. If you're tired of this annual exercise in consumption, meet Buy Nothin Day.

The human brain has to perform a tricky balancing act to fight the lure of a discount. Companies know this and use many tricks to push our buttons. But there's a way to outsmart them.

Concorde crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, cutting travel time in half compared to a conventional passenger plane. The groundbreaking jet made its final flight on Nov. 26, 2003.

In Egypt, people who might look to the West for support or back the idea of peace in the region are in a tough position as death tolls in Gaza rise and the U.S. supports Israel.

The Trump administration and Congress look to shore up the U.S. economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. But details have been slow to emerge, and nervous investors continue to dump stocks.

Texas's oil industry was already having a tough time since the coronavirus crisis reduced demand. With the Saudi price war, some companies may find it hard to endure if prices stay low.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to the former Pavement frontman about his new album Traditional Techniques, getting his old band back together and whether or not his teenage children listen to his music.

A New York judge has sentenced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison. Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault.

The country has been reeling from pressure reimposed by the Trump administration. Now it is scrambling to cope with the virus that has killed dozens of Iranians, including a senior official.

After not addressing news media or supporters on Tuesday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a presidential campaign update on Wednesday afternoon. He plans to stay in the race.

NPR's congressional reporter discusses Congress' return to the electoral count and what the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol might mean for the U.S. politics.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kathleen Belew, an assistant history professor at the University of Chicago, about signs of paramilitary and white power groups' presence at the Capitol.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Terry Gainer, former chief of the Capitol Police and former Senate sergeant-at-arms, about how Capitol Police reacted to pro-Trump extremists breaching U.S. Capitol.