There are all kinds of people online spotting informal recession indicators. Planet Money takes some of those to see how they compare to the indicators economists watch.

VERSE is the first K-pop group in the world to feature North Korean defectors. The group is the latest in K-pop to market multiculturalism in a cutthroat industry.

A Peruvian farmer has lost a landmark climate case against German energy giant RWE. Saul Luciano Lliuya had argued the ...

One musician found that improvising — playing with others without sheet music or a conductor — helped her be fully in the moment.

Landmark climate legislation from the Biden administration would be dismantled in the budget bill that House Republicans recently passed.

A new study that details the evolutionary change of Anna’s hummingbirds found their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.

A new partnership between United States Steel Corp. and Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. announced last week will help keep the firm and the industry alive in America.

Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with attorney Theodore Boutrous, who is representing NPR in a legal challenge to Trump White House plans to stop federal funding of public media.

What does it mean to be "half"? Twenty-five years since its initial launch, photographer Kip Fulbeck revisits his exhibition called "The Hapa Project," an intimate look at mixed-race America.

Rollout of U.S.-backed Gaza aid plan mired in chaos, federal government no longer recommends COVID vaccinations for healthy pregnant women and kids, U.S. works to extract kids held in Syrian camps.

U.S. officials have criticized recent moves by the German government allowed under the German constitution, which the U.S. helped design.