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More than a year into President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, a poll finds that voters in rural parts of the country are divided on whether those immigration … Read more

There is a renewed debate about the death penalty after Christa Pike survived two execution attempts in Tennessee. So how widely used is the death penalty in the … Read more

Tony Stepanow, from Finland, attends a sauna during the International Sauna Congress 2026 in Oslo, Norway, Sept. 25, 2026. Siv Dolmen for NPR hide caption toggle caption i … Read more

Journalist Meredith Lepore admits it: She really can hold a grudge. She says her typical grudge can last five to seven years – or even longer! She felt … Read more

Inset: Jenna Menias. Background: The area in Frankfort, Ill., where Jenna Menias was allegedly struck and killed by a distracted school bus driver (WLS/YouTube). The family of a … Read more

Per Svenningsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, explained: “Optogenetics provides opportunities for mapping the brain in a way that we could once only dream … Read more

Poor employment and sticky inflation did not cause equities to budge much this week. MANHATTAN (CN) — Investors were bombarded with a raft of key economic data this … Read more

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and … Read more

Emma Heming Willis paid tribute to her husband Bruce Willis during World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week and vowed that his diagnosis won’t “be in vain” as she continues … Read more