NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

We asked our readers to make a wish for 2025. If even one of these wishes comes true, the world will definitely be a better ...

President Joe Biden wraps up his term with a flurry of activity before Inauguration Day, and cold weather moves President-elect Donald Trump inside the Capitol for his oath of office and address.

Even as an anti-immigrant president takes office in the United States, migrants are moving north. NPR asks, why?

Five years after the start of the COVID crisis - is the U.S. more prepared to handle another pandemic?

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Nobel-Prize winning author Han Kang about her latest novel, "We Do Not Part." ...

The Israeli government approved a ceasefire deal that could bring an end to the 15 months of war in Gaza. It's slated to go into effect Sunday morning.

We look at what the Department of Justice has and hasn't done on war crimes under outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Syrians are still celebrating the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime, but that enthusiasm is tempered these days.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Yossi Mekelberg of Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Program, about the Israeli political response to a negotiated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The last typewriter store in the Boston area is closing. The owner is retiring and can't find a buyer. But typewriters seem to be enjoying a new popularity.

The old growth forests of Western North Carolina took a beating from Hurricane Helene. Now they've lost a bid for federal protection. This worries advocates that the forests could soon vanish.