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Ecuadorians have decisively rejected a series of referendum measures, including plans for U.S. military bases and constitutional changes, handing President Daniel Noboa a major political setback amid rising gang violence.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on how halftime shows significantly influence listening habits.

Third race is the charm for Shiffrin, who won gold today after failing to podium in her first two races of the 2026 Olympic Games.

Today, Franklin's recording of "Respect" is definitive. But when she recorded it on Valentine's Day 1967, it was a radical gender-bending of Otis Redding's original.

Police still had no suspects in custody Sunday after a weekend shooting near an Ohio street festival wounded 12 people and sent attendees scrambling for cover in a busy Toledo neighborhood.

Some students would like their universities to divest from Israel. Here's why universities don't want to do it — and why it may not even be doable.

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried for what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

Alcohol makes people lose inhibitions. And maybe take off their masks, and get up close and personal. Here's why you may want to steer clear of bars for now, or at least take these extra precautions.

NPR's Mary Lousie Kelly speaks with White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci about vaccine mandates and the FDA's full approval of the Pfizer vaccine.

Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that's headed north from the Caribbean, is expected to make landfall along the New Jersey coast. Its impending arrival prompted the evacuation of hundreds of thousands.

President Trump first tweeted that he had tested positive for the coronavirus early Friday morning. But questions remain about what exactly happened before and after.

After two master's degrees and three children, Hilary Gordon is one of the women who now make up more than half of the contractors at food delivery apps like Instacart. NPR spent a day with her.

The resilience of the "Big Lie" is prompting consternation and creative efforts to reach those who remain adamant — despite all evidence to the contrary — that the 2020 presidential vote was rigged.

A lot of the rap that felt worth listening to in 2019 was hard to listen to — full of sonic dissonance and emotional distance, and pregnant with a particularly black depiction of dystopia.

With the Women's World Cup in the bag and 88 grand masters, India is ready to take over the chess world. And they're making sure their youngsters are poised to checkmate.

Former President Donald Trump has been charged with criminal counts in four separate cases — all as he's running for president again. Here's the status of each one.

"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

Ninety percent of the West is under drought. Concerns of another bad fire year come as one farming community in Washington state has barely started cleaning up from a destructive fire last year.

Rachel Martin talks to food writer Mark Bittman about his new cookbook, "How to Cook Everything Fast," which thumbs its nose at the French tradition of having ingredients prepped before you cook.