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Dryness in the Great Plains and Midwest has choked out crops. Recent rains have been a godsend. Climatologists predict cooler, wetter weather that may help loosen the region's years-long drought.

NPR's Scott Simon revisits a 2018 conversation with Maria Ressa who runs the Filipino investigative news site Rappler. Ressa was one of two journalists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Russian troops continue their assault on Ukrainian territory. Student loan payments may be delayed again. Donald Trump is campaigning again, for other Republicans, and himself.

On a wooded river island, a Ukrainian family guards the legacy of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, whose history and traditions are making a comeback during the war.

Emerging tools may make it easier for the public to detect fake online videos, and more difficult for generative AI systems to create them.

A new state panel tasked with revitalizing Connecticut’s poor urban centers is recommending $76.5 million in financing for more than two dozen economic development projects in 12 communities.

Republican Bob Stefanowski opened his second campaign for governor Wednesday in the same unconventional manner he ended his first one four years ago: By calling “Chaz & AJ in the Morning” on WPLR-FM.

Melle Mel was the rapper on the 1982 hit "The Message." He spoke to Fresh Air in 1998 about the early days of rap, music with a social message and how the genre and his life had changed.

There were no big treats from the Halloween night Powerball drawing, meaning the next drawing Wednesday night will be for a massive $1.2 billion jackpot.

The day after the shooting, then-District Attorney Jackie Johnson placed a call to Greg McMichael, a retired investigator for her office.