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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with sustainability expert Solitaire Townsend about the rise of de-influencers on social media, who spread awareness about the harms of overconsumption on the environment.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the jazz artist Christie Dashiell about her first-ever Grammy nomination, for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

The federal EV tax credit, worth up to $7,500, saw big changes in 2024. For buyers, the credit typically became easier to get. But if their dealers skipped a step, it was a different story.

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day five years ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

College students often use posters to help spruce up their dorm. At the University of Chicago, they get a chance to borrow works by prominent artists for a year.

Kamala Harris has long voiced support for action on climate change, during her career in California and as vice president. Environmentalists hope that background signals she'd take major steps if elected.

Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a multiphase ceasefire that commits them to end the war in Gaza.

Indian officials were in the U.S. earlier in October for talks about an alleged plot to target an American activist. He talks about how having a target on his back has changed his life.

On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has threatened to jail reporters who won't give up the sources of leaks and to strip networks of their broadcast licenses for fact-checking him.

South Africa's new sports minister once drove getaway cars in bank heists. Now he's in government, with plans to bring the dangerous pastime of car spinning into the mainstream.