Search results for

Senators are to vote on a bill that includes $5.7 billion in funding for a border wall. Steve Inskeep talks to GOP Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina. NPR's Kelsey Snell weighs in on the topic.

Fifty years ago, Apollo 8 lifted off. It was the first time humans left low-earth orbit and flew to the moon. The mission capped a difficult year in U.S. history.

Mexico and the U.S. have come to an agreement that immigrants from third countries, who are crossing or approaching the border to seek asylum, will stay in Mexico while their claims are decided.

A Toledo family recently spotted a 4-foot weed growing from a street corner. They added some tinsel and others started adding ornaments. Others left presents which will be donated to needy people.

Rosogolla is a classic Indian sweet, so loved that a new film tells its "bittersweet" origin story. But that story comes with its own version of a political birther controversy.

Priests who sexually abuse children are like Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ, Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals on Friday.

Unleash your inner Grinch in this word game where cheerful icons of the holiday season are mashed up with things that are not happy.

"Of course, this is not an open-ended waiting process," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan added, saying he still intends to launch an operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria.

With striking blue eyes and white hair, Alba was rescued last year by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation — which calls her "the only albino orangutan ever recorded."

Wainwright's music centers on family, and how we hurt and heal each other. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1992 and '17 about his life as a husband, father and son. His new Netflix special is Surviving Twin.