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After Vivian Curren's young son threw sand on another child at a park, she assumed she was about to be judged for poor parenting. Instead, a stranger's response made Curren feel like a good mom.

The U.N. World Food Program plans to cut its staff by a third. Donations from Europe and Britain have flagged, and cuts by the Trump administration forced the humanitarian organization to downsize.

One national park boasts the most diverse collection of wildflowers in the country, and they're blooming right now.

As the world waits for the papal conclave to get underway, Scott Detrow speaks with Robert Harris, the author who dramatized the process in the book Conclave.

Amid stock market volatility, polling finds most Americans believe their finances are deteriorating. Financial analysts advise global diversification and for recent retirees to rein in spending.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA playoffs and the retirement of one of the league's greatest coaches.

Houses are still standing in the burn zone in Los Angeles, ones that made it through the fires. Experts on the ground are finding those homeowners made some key preparations.

There is panic among many of the 170 million Americans on TikTok. That's because, any time now, the Supreme Court is set to decide whether the app will stay, or be banned in six days.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Grady Hendrix about his latest horror novel, "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls," in which the witches are not the worst evil-doers, the humans are.