Sadai Banowan, which means "women's voice" in Dari, is Afghanistan's only women-run station. The Taliban said it was shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan.
The slain man was 26-year-old Mohammed Alasibi from Hura, a Bedouin Arab village in southern Israel. The shooting raises fears of further violence during heightened tensions at the holy site.
A Mongolian boy has been named a top leader of Tibetan Buddhism. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Julian Dierkes of the University of British Columbia on the implications for Mongolian-Chinese relations.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to former Knesset member Michal Cotler Wunsh, about the state of Israeli democracy in the wake of an attempted judicial overhaul, resulting in massive protests there.
Pope Francis was discharged from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis, quipping to journalists before being driven away: "I'm still alive."
The world will see mass migration, destabilized countries and starving people in the next 12 to 18 months without billions of dollars more funding, the U.N. World Food Program chief warned.
Tate was initially detained in late December in Bucharest, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women. He was detained on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking.
Italian authorities are temporarily banning ChatGPT while it investigates the company behind the AI tool. Italy is considered the first government to take such a measure against ChatGPT.
Pistorius was sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison for in 2017, four years after he shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp in their home, claiming he mistook her for an intruder.
Behind the billionaire’s gamble to turn Twitter into a company worth more than 10 times its current valuation is an idea he has hung on to for more than two decades: digital banking.
The new collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Players Association comes as the league prepares for a new round of media-rights talks.
Sergey Brin, Thomas Pritzker, Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Ovitz were asked for information in the U.S. Virgin Islands’ civil suit against JPMorgan Chase.
Young job-seekers are heading to the hiring boom in Southern cities with robust service industries, a relatively low cost of living and vibrant music scenes.
Consumer spending increased a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in February, compared with January’s revised 2% increase, which was the largest one-month gain in nearly two years.
In our last episode, we learn how to drink tea, build human towers, watch the sunset forever and find the Ian inside all of us.
Freedom, Justice, or Peter Sagal November 11, 2016
We learn what happened to a two-thousand year-old toe, and what to do when our voices make you sick.
StoryCorn November 4, 2016
Devil In The White City author Erik Larson helps us write gooder, and we tell you how to snack silently at the movies.
We Accidentally Made A Halloween Episode October 28, 2016
Mark Bittman helps us answer a very creepy question, and we learn who's helping the Obamas move.
Romancing The Cod October 21, 2016
How to talk to fish and protect your yard signs.
Trust Him On The Frustum October 13, 2016
We help you brush that dirt off your shoulder and get the most out of your Reese's.
The Never-Ending Cave October 7, 2016
We tell you how to get deep and how to fake childhood memories.
The Sound of Silence September 30, 2016
A listener needs help opening his Velcro bag quietly, so we call in the military.
Fiddlin', Gruntin', Snorin' and Carlin' September 23, 2016
How to get people to remember your name and find thousands of worms. Note: this episode talks about curse words but bleeps them out. It's educational, but there's a lot of cursing.
The Champ September 16, 2016
We tell you how to keep your fries crispy and make your friends cry.
Usain/Boat September 9, 2016
How to lose to Usain Bolt by a slightly smaller margin, and another use for your bowling shoes.
Bonny's Dream September 2, 2016
How to endure hearing someone describe their dream.
Bears and Bubbles August 26, 2016
How to bathe discreetly and get close to a panda.
Bears, Tigers, Leeches, and Spicy Food August 19, 2016
How to pick a winner in a bear v. tiger fight, find an endangered species, and eat spicy food.
Best Man O' War August 12, 2016
How to train your pet jellyfish and plan a wedding no one will forget.
The Only Olympics Guide You'll Ever Need August 5, 2016
With how-to advice from a bunch of Olympians and Patrick Stewart.
Lyin' Eyes July 29, 2016
How to protect your cow and pull a loose tooth.
Merry Chrismas! July 21, 2016
How to celebrate your new favorite holiday and enjoy the Summer Olympics.
Forecasts calling for more moisture could help increase the availability of irrigation supplies, but Day warned that standing water in fields increases the potential for wilt and root rot diseases that could affect the harvest in late July and early August.
Cost Plus Drugs can offer significant savings on certain prescription drugs, but there are some downsides, too — particularly for people with Medicare.
(STACKER) - World economies have been left in disarray after the COVID-19 pandemic shocked supply chains and deeply affected the global workforce. And the U.S. has been no exception. As financial rescue efforts fade into the background, the U.S. economy is facing dual crises of stubbornly persistent inflation and uncertainty about a looming downturn stemming […]
Earlier this week, state police in New Jersey were dispatched to find a 4-year-old who became lost in the woods after wandering away from his home in Atlantic County.
(STACKER) - Chernobyl, Fukushima, Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez—these names live in the collective global consciousness as warnings about what can happen when we are careless stewards of our environment and negligent neighbors to our fellow man. While the long-term effects remain to be seen, for many Americans, the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio— […]
Arkansas is still reeling as it wakes up on Saturday morning a day after Mother Nature rocked the Natural State with a series of devastating tornadoes.
(THE CONVERSATION) - Neuroscientists have long assumed that neurons are greedy, hungry units that demand more energy when they become more active, and the circulatory system complies by providing as much blood as they require to fuel their activity. Indeed, as neuronal activity increases in response to a task, blood flow to that part of the [...]
Suzana Herculano-Houzel Vanderbilt University via The Conversation
A chipper-sounding Pope Francis was discharged Saturday from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis, quipping to journalists before being driven away that he's “still alive.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A father is faced with learning to walk again, and his young daughter is still in a coma, all after a man stole a state vehicle and crashed into their car. Now close friends of the family are doing what they can to help. Jennifer Pagan says she'll never forget when a [...]