Search results for

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California, about this week's Jan. 6 hearing. It's the committee's first since July.

An attack that hit a boys' school in Afghanistan's capital has left students dead and wounded. It's the latest in sectarian violence against Shia Muslims since the Taliban took control in 2021.

The massive sound of The Aristocrat of Bands, a highly respected HBCU marching band, and the overflowing history of gospel combine on a single album (with a great title) — 'The Urban Hymnal.'

Joey Chestnut faced off against Takeru Kobayashi in a Netflix showdown on Monday. Chestnut downed 83 hot dogs and buns to Kobayashi's 66 in 10 minutes, beating his own world record from 2021.

China's gross domestic product shrank by 6.8% in the first three months of 2020 as closures due to the coronavirus hit the world's second largest economy.

Human rights groups have called the trial of journalist José Rubén Zamora a politically motivated sham after his newspaper uncovered corruption in the Central American country.

By most countries' standards, China's economy is flourishing. It grew almost 7 percent in the last quarter and 9 percent for 2008. Still, that was a slowdown, snapping a five-year streak of double-digit growth. China is the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan.

Listen to these podcasts from middle and high school students, selected from entries submitted on or before March 3.

The Jan. 6 hearings have been packaged like TV shows: Each episode has a plot, and some special guest stars, announced in advance. As a miniseries, the verdict is in: This particular show is a hit.