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NPR speaks with CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp about the life and impact of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist killed Wednesday in Utah.

The Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its summer series of made-for-TV hearings Thursday night. Here's a look back at all the bombshell details and the major revelations it's shared so far.

The U.S. and Venezuela have entered into an oil deal. And, NPR spent two years tracking heat-related deaths and found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat more than the official counts show.

Fifty years ago on Sept. 1, the Pittsburgh Pirates fielded Major League Baseball's first and only all-Black and Latino starting lineup. Hear what that team meant for fans and for history.

In a "window moment," the poet says, a work shifts and expands: "By glancing for a moment at something else, the field of the poem becomes larger. What's in the room with the poem is bigger."

The Pittsburgh Steelers are the champions of the National Football League. Their 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks Sunday was the fifth Super Bowl victory for the franchise, but the first in a quarter-century.

The Pentagon is testing hundreds of military sites around the country for contamination from chemicals known by the acronym PFAS, which have been linked to health problems such as cancer.

Students at Bloomington, Normal Community and Normal West high schools aren't usually teammates on their field, but there's one exception. The three schools are part of a co-op lacrosse program.

The dairy industry is investing big in research to meet its carbon neutral goal by 2050, and to get farmers paid for climate friendly farm practices.

A deep and persistent drought has parched much of Kansas, and wheat farmers there now expect the smallest harvest in at least 60 years.