After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.

A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

The centerpiece of the No Kings protest in Annapolis, Md., was a George Washington reenactor named Randy Goldberg, who delivered the speech Washington gave when he relinquished his command there in ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. VIENNA — At the edge of a wide, grassy park in ...

A new study finds that a moderate level of exercise may lower some people's chances of getting cancer.

Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the street in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdoses ...

On "What's Health," making dental care more accessible by closing insurance gaps. Then, how to decipher medical bills.

Issues include an instructor shortage and that many students aren't ready for the educational demands of nursing. Stephanie Solomon with Tallahassee State College says efforts are in place to help.

Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen's Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

Here's how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, filled with nuts and soaked in syrup or honey.

Dr. Mark Dybul was an architect of PEPFAR, a program credited with saving 26 million lives. Now its future could be in jeopardy as Congress reviews the Trump administration's funding rescission memo.