President-elect Trump's major cabinet nominations are in. Now it's up to the Senate to confirm them. Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

UN climate negotiations are in overtime in Azerbiajan as countries scramble to land a deal on how to finance the damages brought on by climate change. The impacts often are felt most by poor countries ...

SpaceX launched its Starship spacecraft for the sixth time. President-elect Trump and Elon Musk were in attendance.

Pamela Hayden, the voice behind the gullible, hapless Milhouse, is retiring from The Simpsons after 35 years on the show.

On Arizona's border with Mexico, we look at one of many majority Latino counties that swung dramatically toward Donald Trump this election.

Comcast plans to shed its cable TV channels, including MSNBC. What are the fortunes these days of the liberal news channel?

President-elect Trump plans to nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. He's been on of Trump's biggest cheerleaders in the financial world.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with musician Father John Misty — real name Josh Tillman — about his new album. Its title comes from a Sanskrit word, "Mahashmashana." ...

The Trump administration nominee for secretary of defense calls women in combat roles a mistake. Critics fear it's yet another signal that policies that engage with a changing America could be on the ...

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. Reports from Russian media say he fell from a 5th ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River have a 2026 deadline for a new sharing agreement. The Biden administration this week encouraged them to hurry, in an apparent attempt to limit the ...

Janet Martin, aka the Mayor of Armitage Brown Line Station, is retiring from the Chicago Transit Authority after a 29-year career marked with kindness.