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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. (left), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., stand with fellow lawmakers as they listen to President Biden's State of the Union address.

Boebert heckled Biden about deaths in Afghanistan while he mentioned his son's cancer

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert heckled President Biden during his State of the Union speech as he was describing the death of his son Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran who succumbed to brain cancer.

The ACC is choosing new locations for neutral-site championships because of North Carolina's controversial law known as HB2. Here, Clemson fans tailgate outside Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, prior to last December's NCAA Atlantic Coast Conference championship college football game.

ACC Takes Its Biggest Championships Out Of North Carolina, Its Home State

The decision covers eight neutral-site championships in sports ranging from women's soccer to swimming and diving and from football to golf and baseball.

President Biden has not wavered in his public support for Israel's war

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Stephen Walt of the Harvard Kennedy School about President Biden's steadfast support for Israel and its political implications.

Netflix is rolling back the ability for users to share passwords

It was fun while it lasted. Once a cornerstone of its marketing strategy, Netflix is rolling back access to shared passwords.

The 2nd part of the sci-fi epic 'Dune' thunders into movie theaters

After successfully adapting the first half of Frank Herbert's "unfilmable" book, director Denis Villeneuve returns to Arrakis with a star-studded cast for the second part of Dune.

Blinken returns to Israel, working on a plan to protect civilians in Gaza

President Biden sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken back to Israel as the death toll mounts in Gaza, and international calls for a ceasefire grow.

Participants at the 2023 Def Con hacker convention, trying to subvert AI chatbots as part of a contest to test the systems' vulnerabilities.

What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots

In a Jeopardy-style game at the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, hackers tried to get chatbots from OpenAI, Google and Meta to create misinformation and share harmful content.

A mayor in Ukraine aids his town's few remaining people, as Russia closes in

Russian attacks have driven out most of Chasiv Yar's residents. NPR accompanies the mayor on a routine visit to check on those who remain.

Inside the Porcupine School gym on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on Dec. 29, 2022, photographs sit on top of sealed boxes containing items returned to the Oglala Lakota nation by the Founders Museum in Barre, Mass. The items are believed to have been taken off the bodies of people massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890.

In South Dakota, debate over whether or not to burn items returned to Oglala Sioux by Mass. museum

Descendants of the survivors of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre disagree over what should happen to items returned to the Oglala Sioux tribe by a Barre, Massachusetts, museum last year. Tribal members believe the moccasins, pipes and pouches were taken off the bodies of those killed by the U.S. cavalry.

John Liles, based in California, has been named the winner of this year’s Yale Younger Poets Award for his submitted work “Bees, and after”.

Poet who infuses science in his writing wins prestigious Yale poetry award

John Liles, a poet and science writer, has earned the 2024 Yale Younger Poets award, which aims to put a spotlight on the country’s most promising new poets.

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