An impasse over the budget and the threat of a government shutdown dominated political news earlier this week.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., about the House GOP caucus and the Dec. 20 stopgap funding vote. This ...

German officials say a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006 deliberately drove his car into a crowded ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem ...

An impasse over the budget and the threat of a government shutdown dominated political news earlier this week.

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December in Peru means surf and ceviche, as our reporter catches some breaks on the beaches outside Lima. This news story is ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Lane, of the consortium Revolution 250, about why the Battle of Bunker Hill won't be ...

Hours away from a government shutdown, Congress passed a bill to fund federal operations until March 14, 2025.

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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Adrien Brody about his new film, "The Brutalist." The Oscar-winner plays an architect and ...

The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of ...