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Republicans are favored to take control of the chamber thanks to a 2024 map of races that tilts disproportionately in the GOP’s favor. Here are the races to watch.

Every college football season, there’s usually one team that turns out to be a surprise. This year, it’s Duke.The Blue Devils have won ten games-- the…

Host Scott Simon talks about the quintessential summer treat, ice cream, with Barb Zapzalka, owner of Pumphouse Creamery in Minneapolis, Minn. It ranks as one of the "Top 25 Ice Cream Spots in the U.S.," according to Food and Wine Magazine.

2024 was a busy year in North Carolina’s environment and energy sector. From PFAS regulations to more houses falling in the ocean; from the clean energy transition to Hurricane Helene, here’s a roundup of this year’s top stories.

Sam McAlister was the BBC booker who persuaded Prince Andrew to go on record about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It's the subject of new Netflix movie Scoop.

The U.S. government and governments of other countries have paid reparations to a wide range of people and groups, for a variety of wrongs, throughout history. But reparations to Black Americans have not been paid to date. In this episode: listen in on a live conversation about reparations with some of today's top advocates for a federal rollout. How would the debt be calculated? Who would qualify? What methods might work? Would reparations fix racial inequality? | Learn more about this series and the book that inspired it, "From Here To Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century," at waysandmeansshow.org.

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury for refusing to cooperate with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.

Morning Edition host Renee Montagne marks NPR's debut of the WXPN music showWorld Cafe with her top five favorite songs. The program out of Philadelphia moves to NPR on Friday, July1, 2005. One of its most popular features is its regular, top five song lists submitted by listeners.

Songs Of Disappearance is an entire album of calls from endangered Australian birds. Last month, it briefly perched at No. 3 on the country's top 50 albums chart – ahead of Taylor Swift.