This time in the Global Village the spotlight is on music from the Modern Mandolin Quartet. We’ll also hear pipa player Gao ...

SPECIAL: Night Train wraps up the June Stanley Clarke Feature with a special show for his birthday today. We’ll hear the acclaimed bassist in hour one on the first Return to Forever album, on his ...

Pay raises approved unanimously by the Kansas Board of Regents range from 4% to 12% and come as most Kansas colleges have cut ...

People who have lost the ability to move or speak may soon have a new option: surgically implanted devices that link the brain to a computer. More than two decades after researchers first demonstrated ...

Next year, transgender teens in Kansas will no longer be able to access puberty blockers and hormone treatments in the state. That has some families scrambling to find other options for ...

PARIS — A restrictive outdoor smoking ban has come into force in France, a country where café culture, which often includes a glass of wine and a cigarette, is a way of life. As of Sunday, smokers are ...

The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship. At least one person has already been denaturalized in recent weeks. On June 13, a judge ...

Will Hsu of Hsu's Ginseng Enterprises touches ginseng growing under a shade cloth Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Wausau, Wisconsin. Hsu said trade tensions between the U.S. and China have put most of his ...

This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. In 1990, when Karen de Boer was a ...

This year, more than 2 million Americans will hear the scary words: "You have cancer." Let's say it's someone you know. You may be wondering, What's the best thing to do or say? … Or not say? All too ...

The number of homicides is falling dramatically nationwide. In Detroit, for instance, city officials say the number of homicides is at its lowest since 1965, and Police Chief Todd Bettison says that ...

NPR's Michel Martin asks Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin why he made an eleventh-hour decision to join the Senate majority in voting for President Trump's spending agenda.