NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Gints Zilbalodis about his new Oscar-nominated, animated film, "Flow." ...

We look at President Trump's embrace of Vladimir Putin as he turns his back on U.S. ally, Ukraine, as well as mass firings at government agencies and how that will affect the services they provide.

Hackey Sack is not just a game to play at Phish concerts. One Oregon middle school teacher wants to make it the state sport.

We look at Friday night's shakeup at the Pentagon, with the announcement of more staff cuts and a change in a top leadership position.

New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Austan Goolsbee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago about consumer sentiment and inflation.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...

At a pivotal time for Europe and NATO, Germany holds elections on Sunday. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution about the stakes of the election.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant recap a week of intense international hockey and discuss a scary diagnosis for a rising NBA star.

As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

A British man who claims his $700 million worth of Bitcoin is buried in landfill in Wales now says he hopes to buy the site to search for his hard drive, which was dumped more than a decade ago.

Karina Sloan, a longtime Lakeland resident, said many Venezuelans in Polk County are "panicking" over President Trump's ...