This is the first Hanukkah that Murray Horwitz will not be joined by the late Susan Stamberg on NPR's holiday special Hanukkah Lights. We talk with him about their 35 years of making the show.

After 14 years as a U.S. diplomat, one officer talks about being laid off in the State Department's sweeping cuts, losing both career and professional identity.

As Europe and Ukraine offer counterproposals to the White House's Kremlin-friendly plan to end Russia's war on Ukraine, Ukraine's president explores holding wartime elections on ceding territory.

Nineteen of 95,000 photos for the Jeffrey Epstein files were released by a House committee Friday. What do they tell us and when will more information be available?

Tens of thousands of Washingtonians remain under evacuation advisories after successive storms swelled rivers in the Western part of the state. It's not clear yet what damage the region sustained.

Pop critic Ann Powers shares a handful the albums on NPR Music's list of the best of the year, including the one album that nearly the entire team agreed on.

Savory, sour and earthy tasting honey could be the new normal thanks to a new ingredient. Spotted lanternfly poop. The insects spread along the east coast across could usher in new ways to use honey.

One year after the ousting of the Assad regime, some of the first Syrian revolutionaries return to their homes and try to start their lives again. But new divisions and old animosities still fester.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Dr. Jonathan Slotkin about the new data released by Waymo about accidents and their self-driving cars.

A wife in the West Bank city of Nablus grieves her husband who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after he appeared to surrender. An Israeli human rights group weighs in.

The reverberations are still being felt from a vote by advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strike a longstanding recommendation on the hepatitis B vaccine.

Indiana lawmakers rejected a push from President Trump to redraw congressional maps to favor Republicans. The vote is a significant rebuke for Trump.

The estate of Suzanne Adams, who was killed by her son in a murder-suicide, is suing OpenAI and Microsoft. The suit alleges ChatGPT encouraged her son's delusions, which led to the deaths.

President Trump has been racing to rack up peace deals — but keeping them intact is proving far more difficult.

The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.

The state Senate in Indiana defeated a plan to redraw the voting map, in a way that could have flipped two House seats. This was despite months of pressure from President Trump.

Democrats are feeling optimistic about their chances to retake the House of Representatives next year, but they also face challenges in their efforts to push back on President Trump.

Each year, UNESCO recognizes culturally significant practices, traditions and customs. 2025's list includes weaving, handmade paper craftsmanship, yurt making, a genre of Cuban music and yodeling.

A retired nurse knew that many families in her community struggle to afford diapers, so she picked a volunteer job where she could really help.

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.