NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the trade deadline in the NBA.

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

We look at where things stand with the 2 million federal workers weighing the Trump administrations offer to resign; massive cuts at USAID and how the Democrats are responding to these developments.

Washington’s new Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson has vowed to veto any state budget bill that does not include $100 million for ...

China's tariff's on U.S. agricultural exports hit American farmers hard back in 2019. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with farmer Josh Gackle about the impacts of another round of such tariffs.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Alice Franklin about her debut novel, Life Hacks for a Little Alien.

The Trump administration plans to lay off almost all of USAID's staff of nearly 13,000. We look at where it leaves the agency, which administers and provides the majority of U.S. foreign assistance.

There are many places outside of Washington DC that will suffer from an abrupt cut in the size of the federal government. We look at one of those places, the Kansas city metro area.

Ecuador holds the first round of a Presidential election dominated by the issues of economic insecurity and rising drug gang violence.

Five years after the pandemic, have Broadway audiences come back? And what musicals and plays are opening, in the weeks ahead, that might draw in crowds?

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Air Force veterans Linda and Mark Green who met as trumpet players in a military band and are now celebrating 45 years of marriage.

NPR's Scott Simon considers the stenciled messages in the end zones of the Super Bowl - "CHOOSE LOVE" and "IT TAKES ALL OF US ...