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People can pick up germs and parasites from their pets, and some of them can be nasty. Health care providers for all species could do a better job of communicating the risks, a study finds.

The president is trying to persuade Republicans and other skeptics to support the nuclear framework agreement with Iran. But he may have harmed his own cause.

A law professor and expert on national security law sheds some light on the lawsuit by Wikipedia's parent company against the National Security Agency.

Bailouts stir up images of businesses acting recklessly, enriching themselves, and then asking the government for money. That's not the case this time.

NPR's Scott Simon dusts off some history behind the naming of two army bases after Confederate officers, and what Braxton Bragg and Henry Benning actually stood for.

The decision came on the eve of the final day of open enrollment for 2019 health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran announced an deal to keep some verification activities going for the immediate future. Iran earlier had said it would suspend snap inspections.

Novels of manners never get old. Any quick flip through one of today's celebrity magazines will prove that. From social climbers to spouse grabbers, century to century, nothing changes. Author Helen Simonson offers three novels for going beyond Jane Austen's gossip.

When David Sax was 11, his father handed him The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and said: "Read this if you want to know where I came from." Mordecai Richler's novel about an ambitious teen from Montreal's Jewish working class helped Sax learn to appreciate the immigrant drive.

In his new novel, Philip Roth sets a fictional yet plausible polio outbreak in his New Jersey hometown. Set in 1944, Nemesis describes the fear that plagued the country in the years before the vaccine was developed.

Robert Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, explores one of Walt Whitman's most iconic poems, Song of Myself — and shares his opinion about why the poem still resonates 155 years after it was written.

With a bill stuck in legislative limbo, Gov. Kristi Noem issued two orders Monday preventing trans women and girls from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity.

North Korea is facing the worst drought in a century. NPR's Lynn Neary speaks with Greg Scarlatoui of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

Indiana's governor signed into law a measure that would allow businesses and individuals to act based on their religious beliefs. Gay rights groups say it opens the door to legal discrimination.

When folk songwriting legend Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind more than 3,000 songs, most of them unpublished and unrecorded. His daughter sometimes hand-picks artists to record their takes on Guthrie's music and lyrics — but her latest choice is drawing interest and some criticism. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

Entering the Waterford Historical District seems surreal: modern cars and the issues of the day confront you in a town filled with late 18th and 19th century buildings and a farm-land vista that seems drawn from an earlier age. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports how the modern age may finally be catching up with Waterford.

A divided Senate, led by a divided Republican party, begins the debate on overhauling immigration policy. Whatever the Senate comes up with, it will have to reconcile the legislation with a very restrictive House bill.

Collier Mosquito Control District is giving county residents two-inch, guppy-like fish to place in small areas of standing freshwater left behind by Hurricane Ian to eat mosquito larvae.

Author Kamila Shamsie owns two copies of Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion so that no matter where she is, she can always slip into the novel's vital, heart-stopping world.

Her name is synonymous with Chicago blues, and her voice was growling, thunderous and full of soul. Grammy Award-winning blues singer Koko Taylor died in a Chicago hospital Wednesday.