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House leaders are trying to pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal on Thursday. But that's one piece of a larger legislative puzzle that could stymie the Democratic agenda in Congress.

Security to protect the vote remained tight on Sunday as voters headed to the polls to elect a parliament that many hope will deliver much-needed reforms after decades of conflict and mismanagement.

The state of Washington is moving to aggressively thin forests to reduce the worsening wildfire risk. The initiative signals a rare truce between loggers and environmentalists.

President Biden's meeting at the Vatican with the pope is one of several gatherings scheduled with global leaders over the next week.

The Emmy Award-winning television writer, director and producer has spun comedy from the threads of ordinary life for 30 years. Now he's shifting focus to an imagined "life" after death in Upload.

This Independence Day, more than 80 artists will fly pro-immigrant messages over detention facilities and courts, former internment camps, the U.S.-Mexico border and Ellis Island.

For more than a century, artists have worked and lived in the studios above New York's Carnegie Hall. Now, Carnegie Hall wants the 50 tenants to move so it can renovate and expand the hall's education programs. But they aren't leaving without a fight.

Bass baritone opera star Samuel Ramey has made a career out of playing demonic characters on stage. But he tells Scott Simon that in his early years he listened to the likes of Elvis Presley and Pat Boone.

In the latest edition of Word of Mouth, NPR's Steve Inskeep gets recommendations from Daily Beast editor Tina Brown on the subject of survival.

Maryna Teplova says her daughter and granddaughter, forced to flee the worsening conflict in Ukraine, have safely crossed the border into Poland.