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Today, as results come in across the country, NPR reporters will be updating this breaking news blog in real time. The NPR Politics team, along with…

The population explosion in Williston, N.D., has been a blessing and a curse for many local businesses. Stores and restaurants are struggling to find workers because they can't compete with what most oil jobs pay. Plus, there's now a day care shortage, and housing costs have skyrocketed.

Black Lives Matter activists in the U.S. and anti-police brutality activists in Brazil meet in Rio and make connections. Latino USA talks to three different people who paint a snapshot of that day.

Fewer than 400 people live in Bormida, Italy. To gain residents the village is offering cheap rents and is considering cash payments. A resident told The Guardian, "There's nothing much to do here."

This Thanksgiving Day evening we listen back to our program from earlier this year featuring music performed live in studio by the Southwest Florida-based soul/reggae/rock band The Freecoasters!

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying on Capitol Hill to answer questions about protecting user data. The hearing held by the Senate Judiciary and…

We’ll be treated to music performed live in studio by the Southwest Florida-based soul/reggae/rock band The Freecoasters!Amid the COVID-19 outbreak the band has released its much anticipated second full-length studio album titled, “A Different Kind of Heat.” The album follows the release of their debut album, “Show Up,” in 2016.We’ll learn more about band members Marc Davis (percussion), Claire Liparulo (lead vocals, guitar), Shane Praefke (organ, piano), Gina Calabrese-Hendershot (vocals) and John Schiller (bass) and their approach to blending musical genres. We’ll hear selections from the new album performed live, and explore how band members are coping amid the ongoing viral pandemic.

Ahead of the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival this weekend, Here & Now sits down with two authors, Ward Just and Laura Wainwright, who both make the Vineyard their home year-round.

The trek of millions of Monarch butterflies from their breeding grounds in North America to central Mexico is one of nature's great mysteries, scientists say. But many in the area taken over from November to March see it as a mixed blessing.