Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have seen explosive growth over the last year. These platforms allow people to put money on the outcomes of everything from local elections to the Super ...

An NPR reporter covering the Olympics in Milan takes us on cultural side quests, to a hospitality house and a candy store.

U.S. speedskater Jordan Stolz had a lot of hype accompanying him in these Winter Olympic Games. He's now got two gold medals, ...

These days, the Super Bowl halftime show is a massive driver of the streaming, airplay and sales that fuel the Billboard ...

Canada was long the top dog of Olympic women's hockey. But with a win Thursday, the Americans could do more than earn a third ...

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a ...

The classic spiritual conjures themes of freedom and resilience, which flow through a conversation between pianist Lara ...

The day after the FBI released a video of the masked man who is believed to have kidnapped Nancy Guthrie from her home in the ...

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name.

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing the number of admitted refugees and re-reviewing those admitted under the ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...