October 15, 2025; Washington, D.C. — NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher announced today that Mishka Pitter-Armand will become NPR's Chief Marketing Officer. She will play a key role in efforts to ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan following days of violence that have killed dozens of people on both sides of the border. Pakistan's Foreign ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Pennsylvania governor's mansion ...

Republicans, both in Congress and at the state level, are continuing a push to restrict voting by U.S. citizens living abroad. We discuss what those restrictions could look like and what they could ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The army in Madagascar seized power on Tuesday, days after the president went into hiding saying he feared for his life after several weeks of massive anti-government ...

This week, the sales for Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl finally hit the Billboard charts, and the album is — would you just believe it? — a huge success. Released Oct. 3, Swift's 12th studio LP ...

Together, we chart the course. You count on public media for stories that help you understand your world — voices that bring us closer together. People like you power public media. You make it ...

October 14, 2025; Washington, D.C. – On October 18, NPR will launch Books We've Loved, a new limited series from the team that produces NPR's Book of the Day podcast. This series invites listeners to ...

From NPR Editor in Chief Thomas Evans: NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists. We will not sign the ...

TEL AVIV — President Trump declared the Gaza war over and received a standing ovation in Israel's parliament then in Egypt at a signing ceremony on Monday for his leading role in bringing about a ...

There are countless videos on social media showing similar scenes. One, filmed by a photographer in Hyattsville, Md., shows a man pinned to the ground by two ICE officers. He pleads in Spanish and ...