NPR's Scott Simon remembers Gene Hackman, who played everymen, cops and villains over his long movie career. The 95 year old ...

Hamas says it is not willing to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire, rejecting an Israeli request to delay ...

An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power. Law clerks and other ...

Federal employees have received a second email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them what they did last week.

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones ...

Voice of America is reviewing the social media posts of a reporter for possible bias against the Trump Administration. The ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, about how some government statistics get the economy wrong.

It's well known that President Trump is a devotee of professional wrestling. Pundits often describe his moves in the White House in wrestling terms: smackdowns, cage fights and so on. We ask how the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with comedian Bruce Vilanch about his new book, "It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time," which details some of the worst television of the twentieth century and his role in it.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to former National Security Adviser John Bolton about the foreign policy implications of Friday's shocking press conference between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.

We look at the anticipated impact of of the USAID funding freeze, which helped some of the poorest people around the world. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the matter.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Duncan Clark about the return of Jack Ma, founder of online Chinese retailer Alibaba. The tech exec had gone quiet after comments critical of China in 2020.