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NPR's Leila Fadel discusses GOP divisions with freshman Rep. Keith Self of Texas, one of the Republican holdouts who eventually backed Kevin McCarthy's House speaker bid.

A Bloomington family found a ring-tailed lemur in a garage, a long way from its native Madagascar.

When NPR host Scott Simon was in his teens, he took a job in an assisted living facility in Chicago. "It really opened my eyes into seeing the world differently," he says.

Oil development in North Dakota and Montana has caused ridership to increase dramatically on the only Amtrak line running through those states. Nationally, the railroad company costs the federal government more than $400 million every year, so rail enthusiasts thought the oil boom might turn around the losing rail proposition in certain regions. But the Empire Builder Line is still not making money.

In a cold winter, some Minnesotans embrace the season with dog sleds. A reporter learns firsthand what it's like to be in the driver's seat.

This month's train derailment in Ohio unleashed toxic fumes into the air around East Palestine. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Johns Hopkins expert Peter DeCarlo about safety concerns.

The insurrection at the Capitol was just the latest chapter in America's ongoing battle over race, writes NPR host Sam Sanders. "Once you see it as such," he says, "it all makes a lot more sense."

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Stefan Liebich, a former member of Germany's Parliament, about his country's reluctance to send tanks to Ukraine, and to allow other countries to do the same.

Governor touts accomplishments from energy and infrastructure to assault weapons ban

For many in Ukraine, the tradition of plunging into an icy body of water on Epiphany, which marks the day of Jesus' baptism, serves as a reminder that the new year represents a fresh start.