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As 2018 comes to an end, movie critic Bob Mondello takes a look at the year's best films.

Jeff Hazen reads Jack London's classic 1908 short story, "To Build a Fire."To Build a Fire is an intimate and harrowing story of a man's journey alone…

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Carey Jones and John McCarthy, the husband and wife team behind the new book Be Your Own Bartender.

The Democratic Republic of Congo finally voted Sunday in a long-delayed election meant to usher in a peaceful transfer of power after Joseph Kabila's long rule.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with writer Jill Lepore of The New Yorker about her article "What 2018 Looked Like Fifty Years Ago."

A new day care facility is opening Jan. 2 for employees in the House of Representatives which will reduce the wait list for childcare from three years down to one.

As a freezing winter drives many of us indoors, some extreme athletes embrace the cold as a great way to burn calories and retrain the immune system while working out. Not so fast, physiologists say.

Steve Inskeep talks with Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who takes over from Jim Mattis on Jan. 1.

Using Medicaid payment data from towns in Alaska that have rejected fluoride in recent years, a new study supports dentists' claims that teeth get worse when the water supply is not fluoridated.

We reported that a cow bound for the slaughterhouse slipped out of a truck, and wandered along a New Jersey highway until it was caught. After taken to an animal shelter, the cow gave birth.