NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Elizabeth Threlkeld, a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, about rising tensions between India and Pakistan.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.

On April 13, Sarah Niyimbona slipped out of Providence Sacred Heart's pediatrics floor, where she had been staying for three ...

The reappearance of lynx in Scotland raised concern about an illegal reintroduction effort. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Peter Cairns of Scotland The Big Picture about what rogue rewilding entails.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natalie Moore about the legacy of soap operas. She is host and writer of "Stories Without End," the new season of the WBEZ podcast "Making." ...

News of an American pope, and a Chicagoan, causes NPR's Scott Simon to remember what it was like attending Mass in his ...

The D.C. area band didn't fall far from the genre's tree, but it's ripping out pop-punk's more problematic roots.

As the Department of Veterans Affairs tries to meet President Trump's goal of cutting 15% of staff, vets are concerned there ...

In a 15-state lawsuit filed in federal court in Seattle, states argue the president is abusing his authority to fast-track ...

Bestselling Swedish writer Fredrik Backman says he never struggled with his confidence as much as he did writing his new book, My Friends. In fact, he was seriously considering retiring.

The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

Crumb's comics were staples of 1960s counterculture. He's now the subject of a new biography. Crumb spoke to Fresh Air in 2005, and again, with his wife, fellow comic Aline Kominsky Crumb, in 2007.