The Latest National A look back at Ruby Ridge — and why it's relevant today in Minnesota More than 30 years ago, a standoff with a white separatist family in Idaho led to federal rules on deadly use of force. Some say Renee Macklin Good's death in Minnesota offers a similar opportunity. Odette Yousef Global Health Last year was disaster for an HIV vaccine trial. This year? A new way forward A cutting edge pan-African HIV vaccine trial lost funding last year when the Trump administration shut down much of foreign aid. The setback was devastating but the researchers refused to give up. Ari Daniel National Pentagon vows to end 'woke distractions' at military's independent newspaper The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes responds to a Defense Department announcement that it will assume greater control over the military newspaper. Steve Walsh Winter storm preparations underway across the South Across the South and Northeast, communities are preparing for snow and ice from a massive winter storm expected to move through this weekend. Justin Hicks Science The week in science: Ice, parents' disgust and penguins adapting to climate change Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the mysterious structure of ice, parents' heightened tolerance for disgust, and how penguins are adapting to climate change. Regina G. Barber Politics What Pennsylvania swing voters think of Trump's first year back in office How do Biden-to-Trump voters feel about year one of Trump's second term? A focus group of Pennsylvania voters provides some unique insight. Mara Liasson How to prepare your home for a winter storm This weekend, much of the country is expecting to be hit by a major winter storm. NPR's Life Kit share tips to prepare your home ahead of a big snowfall. Andee Tagle National Death of a detainee at an ICE detention center in Texas is ruled a homicide The El Paso County medical examiner classified the death of a 55-year-old Cuban ICE detainee as homicide. Angela Kocherga World Greenland and the world order Is there a deal between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland? Mary Louise Kelly and the team on NPR's national security podcast break it down. Tom Bowman Books The influence of the sleeper hit novel 'The Correspondence' Virginia Evans' debut novel, The Correspondent, was a sleeper hit of 2025. The book tells the story of a divorced woman in her 70s through her letters to her friends, kids, loved ones and strangers. Andrew Limbong Prev 345 of 1643 Next Sponsored
National A look back at Ruby Ridge — and why it's relevant today in Minnesota More than 30 years ago, a standoff with a white separatist family in Idaho led to federal rules on deadly use of force. Some say Renee Macklin Good's death in Minnesota offers a similar opportunity. Odette Yousef
Global Health Last year was disaster for an HIV vaccine trial. This year? A new way forward A cutting edge pan-African HIV vaccine trial lost funding last year when the Trump administration shut down much of foreign aid. The setback was devastating but the researchers refused to give up. Ari Daniel
National Pentagon vows to end 'woke distractions' at military's independent newspaper The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes responds to a Defense Department announcement that it will assume greater control over the military newspaper. Steve Walsh
Winter storm preparations underway across the South Across the South and Northeast, communities are preparing for snow and ice from a massive winter storm expected to move through this weekend. Justin Hicks
Science The week in science: Ice, parents' disgust and penguins adapting to climate change Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the mysterious structure of ice, parents' heightened tolerance for disgust, and how penguins are adapting to climate change. Regina G. Barber
Politics What Pennsylvania swing voters think of Trump's first year back in office How do Biden-to-Trump voters feel about year one of Trump's second term? A focus group of Pennsylvania voters provides some unique insight. Mara Liasson
How to prepare your home for a winter storm This weekend, much of the country is expecting to be hit by a major winter storm. NPR's Life Kit share tips to prepare your home ahead of a big snowfall. Andee Tagle
National Death of a detainee at an ICE detention center in Texas is ruled a homicide The El Paso County medical examiner classified the death of a 55-year-old Cuban ICE detainee as homicide. Angela Kocherga
World Greenland and the world order Is there a deal between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland? Mary Louise Kelly and the team on NPR's national security podcast break it down. Tom Bowman
Books The influence of the sleeper hit novel 'The Correspondence' Virginia Evans' debut novel, The Correspondent, was a sleeper hit of 2025. The book tells the story of a divorced woman in her 70s through her letters to her friends, kids, loved ones and strangers. Andrew Limbong