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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Anna Wiederkehr of FiveThirtyEight about the growing popularity of long-distance endurance runs during the pandemic.

A Pakistani woman who survived a near deadly assault managed to bring her attacker to justice. But her effort showed how hard it is to prosecute crimes against women in Pakistan.

A heat wave is gripping much of the U.S. with over 110 million people under heat-related warnings, watches and advisories. In parts of California, temperatures may reach well into the triple digits.

President Biden huddled with Democratic governors at the White House amid concerns about the fallout from his debate performance.

The next British prime minister will be Keir Starmer, from the center-left Labour Party. It was a near wipeout for the Conservatives -- the party's worst defeat in its nearly 200-year history.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Vali Nasr, Middle East Studies professor at Johns Hopkins University, about the election of a reformist president in Iran, and prospects for policy changes.

Food labels have become battlegrounds. Government regulators, companies and food movement activists have been fighting over what belongs on the label. (GMOs? Trans fats? Claims that bran prevents heart disease?) We asked four big thinkers for their dream food label.

The Peacock series Fight Night tells the story of how a party after Muhammad Ali's 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta became an infamous heist.

The federal budget deficit is falling sharply, but you wouldn't know it from some of the rhetoric in Washington. But Republicans caution that the downward trend line will reverse itself soon enough.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., about his views on what the federal government and lawmakers can do about police excessive force.