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Read and hear an exclusive, pre-release excerpt of Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire, the follow-up to last year's young adult best-seller The Hunger Games.

This week in politics: Jeb Bush isn't doing a great job of separating himself from his brother, the GOP's diversity problem and were the polls really wrong again?

Do big league hitters have naturally faster reflexes? Are African-Americans predisposed to be better athletes? In his new book, Sports Illustrated's David Epstein says science now has answers — or at least insights — to all these questions.

Their collaborative project The Hollywood Vampires is a rock band, specializing in a macabre kind of historical fiction.

The Supreme Court will review a lower court decision that would make the abortion pill mifepristone less accessible. Putin holds his first year-end press conference since Russia invaded Ukraine.

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.

At least a dozen Justice Department employees involved in prosecuting President Trump have received dismissal notices. And, why China's DeepSeek AI is such a big deal.

In October 2013, open enrollment begins, when people can start signing up for their 2014 coverage through the new state-run health exchanges. But most of the changes in 2013 are tax increases and cuts in tax deductions to pay for the 2014 changes.

The Toraja people of Indonesia keep the preserved bodies of their deceased relatives at home for years. They're saving up for a big funeral. But there's a deeper reason for the custom.

NPR appoints Gimlet executive Collin Campbell to oversee its podcasts in the wake of a sharp dive in revenues and churn in its executive ranks.