A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response.

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth signaled that the U.S. will reorient its policy towards "deterring aggression by communist China." ...

Mexico is set to elect its judges by popular vote — a move that critics warn could undermine judicial independence and empower organized crime.

Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who rejected writing in the language of the colonizer, died at 87. NPR's Scott Simon previously spoke to him about his latest novel and waiting for the Nobel Prize.

President Trump addressed U.S. Steel workers and local officials in Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, trumpeting a deal between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to French writer-director Laura Piani about her new movie, a romantic comedy titled "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life." ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her colleague Noah Bullock from the human rights organization Cristosal about the case.

District Attorney Thomas D. Anglim ruled that Alec Shaw’s actions led the deputy to reasonably believe that his own life, and ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Ged O'Brien, founder of the Scottish Football Museum, about how the discovery of a football field raises doubts about the sport's roots.

The massive bill Republicans are working to pass to enact the core of President Trump's agenda is on its way to the Senate. A group of GOP lawmakers have expressed concerns over the size of spending.

"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells ...