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Anaïs Mitchell spent more than a decade developing her hit musical Hadestown, a retelling of a Greek myth set in hell. Now, after eight Tony Awards and a Grammy, she has changed the scenery.

With less than a year until the mid-term election, dozens of lawmakers are calling it quits. NPR's Dierdre Walsh explains why.

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Mike Mazza of the American Enterprise Institute about whether the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing will have a tangible effect.

The social media platform announced ways to help its youngest users and their parents a day before the app's head, Adam Mosseri, is to testify about Instagram's potential risks to kids and teens.

Linguist Christopher J. Moore has made a career of searching out some of the world's most "untranslatable" expressions — words from around the globe that defy an easy translation into English. Moore shares a few of his linguistic favorites from his new book In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World.

Trevor Rainbolt has garnered over 600,000 followers on TikTok with his uncanny ability to identify the country where photos on Google Maps were taken.

Domestic issues like abortion and guns have followed President Biden abroad, where he's meeting with G7 and NATO leaders.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. Emily Haber about two summits where her country will be a major player — the G-7 and NATO — and their priorities.

States are moving to immediately ban abortions, after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe. Many states have so-called "trigger laws" to ban the procedure in the event of a such a ruling.

A new analysis commissioned by DARPA quantifies how the decentralized tech that runs the currency system could be compromised.