Populist British MP Nigel Farage resigned from Parliament over questions about his finances, and is running for re-election ...

India and China — are missing from the expanded 48-team men's World Cup, highlighting corruption, bureaucratic rot and youth ...

Among the many treasures of the New York Public Library are tens of thousands of restaurant menus.

Scott Simon talks with author Azar Nafisi about the movie adaptation of her bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran.

President Trump refused to sign a housing bill, now law, in protest over Congress not passing new restrictions on voting.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Swarthmore College political science professor Dominic Tierney about the U.S.-Iran war and other conflicts that have left the U.S. in drawn-out entanglements.

The sport of beep baseball uses sound to guide visually impaired players to hit the ball and run the bases.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Shannon Sanders about "The Great Wherever," her new novel, which tells a story through ghosts from multiple generations of a Black family on a Tennessee farm.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Republican strategist Liam Donovan about his party's approach to November's Senate races.

The nation's oldest continuously operated weather observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, keeps track of a surprising climate indicator: the date the first blueberry ripens.

Terry Tempest Williams writes about what is easy to overlook – she calls it "the holy ordinary." She spoke with Wild Card's Rachel Martin about being present and her new book, The Glorians.

The Davies Project is a Lansing-based nonprofit that brings children with serious medical conditions, pregnant women and ...