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Sedaris says the best part of reading his work to an audience is earning the laughs — or the groans. "A collective groan is fine with me," he says. His new book is The Land and Its People.

Children closest to an incident of gun violence have the most risk of lasting psychological effects. Here's what all parents should know about how to buffer trauma.

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Greta Caruso and Fanny Singer about their newsletter on feeding kids, and how to get the child in your life to love summer produce.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, about her role as a lead negotiator on the debt ceiling deal and future threats of default.

The U.S. health secretary says he wants to shift addiction care toward an approach that includes rural farms or camps for people in recovery. Many addiction experts say the idea is outdated.

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?

As he prepares to leave his post, CIA Director Bill Burns speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the transition to a new Trump administration as well as priorities for the U.S. intel apparatus.

A hospital in Nebraska shut down the only dialysis unit for miles, upending lives. That's despite a new federal program that gave the state more than $200 million to improve rural health care access.