WBGO's President and CEO Steven A. Williams responds to President Trump issuing an executive order seeking cessation of ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. This is my first show back in about 2 1/2 weeks. Today's show is all about why. My husband, my partner of 47 years, Francis Davis, died after a long illness on ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed on Wednesday to be on the verge of taking a transformative step—a step that would for the first time allow overtly religious schools to be fully ...

President Trump has repeatedly promised to "make America affordable again." But for those Americans most in need, his administration's latest budget plan would dramatically shrink the federal rental ...

Pauline Lee is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States as teenagers, with nothing. "When they came here they were dirt poor," she recalled. They worked entry-level jobs at first, ...

The Trump administration plans to impose a new testing requirement for new vaccines — a demand that could delay the availability of the next round of COVID-19 vaccines and complicate the approval of ...

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and to their ...

The letters began arriving at medical journals around the country over the last few weeks. "It has been brought to my attention that more and more journals and publications … are conceding that they ...

The Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors ...

…No. 10, where Grammy-winning rapper Doechii vaults into the top 10 for the first time in her career. Alligator Bites Never Heal leaps from No. 24 to No. 10 thanks to a combination of factors: The ...

Republicans on the House education committee publicly unveiled their plan Tuesday to remake the federal student loan system while also cutting more than $330 billion in federal spending to help offset ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp could not suppress his excitement. He was on an earnings call in February with the data-mining company's shareholders. Its profits were skyrocketing. Karp was bursting with glee ...