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When Al DiStefano accidentally dropped his class ring into the Long Island Sound, he never thought he'd see it again. More than half a century later, the kindness of a stranger brought the ring back to him.

Kentucky’s largest utility company is proposing a mechanism to make new data centers pay their fair share, but first wants approval to build $3 billion of new gas plants.

A teacher's students became enthusiastic about her summer side hustle. In the end, everybody learned something without even trying.

NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they've faced tribulations.

Academia is a very special kind of hell, and Kuang clearly understands it. In her innovative new novel, a magical professor dies in a lab accident and two students descend into hell to find him.

The Hindu holiday of Navaratri involves some complicated dance moves, passed down from parents to children. But as one mother discovered, the line between passing on cultural traditions and mortifying your teenager daughters can be perilously thin.

San Francisco has a population of fewer than a million people and yet has launched a number of national political careers, including that of Kamala Harris.

Baseball fans wonder if they could end up with a New York City "subway series," while tennis fans are reflecting on the career of Rafael Nadal.

A program in Oregon teaches incarcerated youth to train dogs, manage a kennel and help pups find forever homes out in the community.

Israel is ramping up its attacks throughout Lebanon, saying it is striking Hezbollah targets there.