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Olga Tokarczuk's book won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Critic John Powers says the hard-to-classify work is positively exploding with maps, remembrances, riffs, history and more.

There's a big survival gap between white and minority children when it comes to some childhood cancers. It turns out growing up in poverty explains a lot of the difference.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with New York Times reporter Kim Severson about her story that actress Asia Argento, one of Harvey Weinstein's most vocal critics during the #MeToo movement, has been paying off her own accuser.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with director Aneesh Chaganty about his new movie Searching, about a father who looks for his missing daughter aided only by the messages, videos and other digital remnants she leaves behind.

Texas is one of the largest producers of wine in the U.S. But the grapevines in the High Plains are facing a threat that's causing them to twist and wither. And it's coming from the cotton fields.

A crowd of about 250 students, faculty and residents stormed the bronze sculpture of a Confederate soldier, using ropes to yank it from its century-old pedestal.

Scott Michael Johnson, identified by the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, was a securities analyst at an investment banking firm. More than 1,100 victims have yet to be identified.

This year's Tour de France has been a race of misadventures for defending champion Chris Froome – who's been accosted by police and suffered a run of bad luck. He's currently third.

The European Union says it will buy more soybeans from the U.S. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with farmer Brad Kremer as growers in the U.S. are already feeling the hit from the trade war with China.

Congressional Republicans are anxious about Trump's trade policies, but found some relief in the deal the president announced yesterday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.