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The Fed lowered its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point, in an effort to shore up a weakening job market. With inflation remaining stubbornly high, it was not a slam dunk decision.

How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking.

Thousands of high school seniors are filling out their federal financial aid form or FAFSA. Numbers show a record increase in applications despite confidence in higher ed being at a low.

The Nobel committee said laureate María Corina Machado was safe and was braving the journey to Norway.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.

The author, whose real name was Madeleine Sophie Wickham, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in late 2022.

New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin draws parallels between the stock market crash of 1929, which led to the Great Depression, and today's economic uncertainty.

City residents are responsible for removing snow from sidewalks adjacent to their property, but snow-covered walkways continue to be a problem in one of the snowiest cities in the U.S.

In the latest in a series of legal setbacks for Trump's deployments, a judge ruled the administration must end its deployment to Los Angeles and return control of National Guard troops to California.