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Nearly 70 percent of voters say Republicans and Democrats fail to adequately represent the American people. One group is trying to help elect more unaffiliated candidates.

The mayor of Cremona, Italy, blocked traffic during five weeks of recording and asked residents to please keep quiet so master musicians could play four instruments — note by note — for posterity.

Responders are zeroing in on an important source of new infections in the towns of Katwa and Butembo.

Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a new kind of U.S. tax policy: a wealth tax. But the policy faces serious hurdles, including lessons from a failed experiment in Europe and a constitutional challenge

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney, who is also the Foreign Affairs and Trade minister, about Brexit and trade and security issues.

An exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art highlights intricate gold work that nearly disappeared — as well as its past ties to a morally complicated group of powerful women.

Steve Inskeep talks to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue about what the federal government can do to help reduce the risk from wildfires, like the ones devastating California.

According to the government's most comprehensive assessment to date, climate change has already damaged American infrastructure and cost both money and lives.

The Trump administration released a major climate assessment on Black Friday. It is the most detailed and blunt assessment yet of the dangers of unchecked global warming.

Both Republican and Democratic members of Congress praised the retired Marine Corps general and expressed concern over the direction of Trump's military and foreign policy once Mattis is gone.