It was a true holiday gift this week to see an opinion piece in The New York Times by Pope Francis. In a short essay adapted ...

NPR staff recommend memoirs from our annual Books We Love list: "Bird of Four Hundred Voices," "The Backyard Bird Chronicles," "Knife," and "Here After." ...

We explore the history of the bells that have become so tied with the Christmas season: jingle bells.

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.

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

The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. NATO ally Turkey sees them as a threat and is demanding ...

Some Amazon drivers held small protests this week to highlight conditions they say need to be improved and urged other drivers to join the teamsters union.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss a big weekend of college and professional football.

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution about how Israel views ...

President Biden initially wanted to turn his foreign policy to China but instead was drawn into Ukraine and the Middle East.