A small record label is reissuing what it calls the first country record. The music was first released in 1891 on a wax cylinder. And the singer on the album was a Black man from New Orleans.

A white ex-police detective from Kansas City accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls was found dead Monday — the same day his federal trial was set to begin in Topeka.

The focal point of the case is 2009 law enacted by Congress that gives the Food and Drug Administration a mandate to curb the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of forensic accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, ...

In Syria, where government forces and rebel fighters have essentially been locked in a stalemate for over a decade, an unexpected opposition — a Turkish-backed group — has taken over.

Yet again, TikTok may be up for sale. During Trump's first term, resistance from China and company executives complicated any potential acquisition. But that may change in Trump's next term.

After reaching record level highs in January, olive oil prices in Spain are now dropping, causing worry among olive oil producers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro examines the substance behind and implications of President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter. He did so with just weeks left in his presidency after repeatedly promising not to.

The Skate Mind Project is working to bring psychological first aid to the skatepark — promoting stronger relationships within ...

The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?

Send us a voice memo about a song that hit you hard in 2023 -- one you listened to on repeat, ugly cried to, or that just ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Andrew Weissmann, a top lawyer at the FBI from 2011-2013, about President-elect Trump's plan to replace FBI director Christopher Wray with an ally, Kash Patel.