'It's such a dream': Top high school performers step out on Broadway
With a billboard in Times Square and a night on Broadway, the year's top high school performers are ready for their big moment at the Jimmy Awards.
In Japan, longtime restrictions are lifted to allow a major defense buildup
The policy change is widely seen as a major step toward rearming Japan more than seven decades after its demilitarization after World War II.
If you speed, you may get a ticket. How about a warning and an onion instead?
Col. Lou Caputo of Florida's Monroe County Sheriff's office has been handing them out for 20 years. Dressed as the Grinch, he reminds drivers that school zones still apply during the holidays.
When Frontier Airlines canceled a flight, 13 strangers took to the road
When the flight from Orlando, Fla., to Knoxville, Tenn., was canceled, a group of passengers chipped in $60 each to rent a van and drove all night to Knoxville. A Tik Tok video went viral.
Researchers in Brazil credit the power of sound for scientific discoveries
The Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse ecosystem on the planet. Scientists there say the best way to experience it may be with your ears.
Divided political parties in Tunisia unite to boycott parliamentary elections
Rights groups say Tunisia appears to be regressing back to autocracy under President Kais Saied — in a global trend of populist leaders getting elected. Saied dissolved parliament in March.
The Planet Money team deciphers whether chart reading will predict stock winners
A standard way to decide whether buy or sell stocks is to look at a company's fundamentals. Others decide trades by taking a ruler to a stock or bond price chart and drawing some shapes.
Twitter owner Elon Musk suspends the accounts of several high-profile journalists
Press freedom advocates are criticizing Elon Musk after he suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists who cover him, and his chaotic leadership of the social media site.
Has AI reached the point where a software program can do better work than you?
NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Ethan Mollick of the University of Pennsylvania about an artificial intelligence program that uses AI to compose college essays, news stories, poems and even sitcoms.
Morning news brief
Twitter suspends journalists who shared information about Elon Musk's jet. Tunisians go to the polls Saturday for parliamentary elections. To try to stop protests, Iran sentences more people to death.
5 officers are charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of a Black man in Louisiana
The officers in Louisiana face criminal charges in the deadly arrest of Ronald Greene after a high-speed chase. Bodycam video showed officers brutally beating the Black driver.
The World Cup final between Argentina and France is expected to be a thriller
On Sunday, France will try to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back World Cup titles. Argentina is trying to win one for the team's legendary forward Lionel Messi.