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The prehistoric monument Stonehenge, near Amesbury in southern England, has long fascinated researchers and visitors.

Researchers say they've found the surprising source of a key piece of Stonehenge

Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.

Just shy of a decade after debuting in hip-hop, Post Malone completes a long-gestating country turn with the new album <em>F-1 Trillion</em>.

Post Malone's winding country road

The duet-packed F-1 Trillion marks a new chapter, but it's no wild swerve — the one-time SoundCloud rapper has had his eye on Nashville for years.

To save more money, avoid these 5 common financial mistakes

Financial missteps can cost you money. Make better-informed decisions about budgeting, investing and borrowing money.

Small solutions to climate change that make a big impact

Climate change is presenting so many challenges in our regions, but residents around New England are rising to the occasion. This hour, we hear from reporters from the New England News Collaborative on new solutions to mitigating climate change.

HHS team negotiated with drug companies to save on Medicare drug prices

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra about the results of negotiations to lower Medicare prices for 10 blockbuster drugs.

Talks to negotiate a cease-fire deal in Gaza are set to resume Thursday

Can another round of U.S.-brokered cease-fire talks lead to an end to the war in Gaza? That's where tens of thousands of people have been killed and families have been repeatedly displaced.

The Federal Communications Commission announced its plans to launch a new nationwide alert code for missing and endangered Indigenous people who do not fit the criteria for an Amber Alert or Silver Alert. Here, family and friends of the missing and murdered march around the California State Capitol at the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action in Sacramento, Calif., on Feb. 13.

FCC adopts an alert system for missing Indigenous people

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

Blair Marvin, co-owner of Elmore Mountain Bread in Lamoille County, stands in front of her oven and workspace, speaking to the bread bus tour group

Vermont bakeries are sourcing grain locally for the first time since the 19th century

Up until about 20 years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find wheat fields in Vermont — it hasn’t been grown for baking here since it was planted by early European settlers. When colonial America expanded West, the crop largely disappeared from the Northeast. With its return, so too is bread made from 100% local ingredients and related industries like grain milling.

The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Trump gutted federal employee unions. They believe he'd do it again

Federal employee unions are fervently supporting Kamala Harris for president, in part because they like her pro-labor policies, but just as much because they fear a second Trump term.

Retail medications are displayed on shelves at a Walgreens pharmacy store in Deerfield, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2024. America's drugstores are testing smaller locations and making bigger bets on health care as they adjust to customers who need them less for convenience.

Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got

The White House announced new Medicare drug prices for 10 medicines popular with beneficiaries. It's the first time the federal program has negotiated lower prices with the pharmaceutical industry.

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