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Hackey Sack is not just a game to play at Phish concerts. One Oregon middle school teacher wants to make it the state sport.

We look at President Trump's embrace of Vladimir Putin as he turns his back on U.S. ally, Ukraine, as well as mass firings at government agencies and how that will affect the services they provide.

Two new memoirs, How to Sell Out and Trauma Plot wrestle with the question — is it worth it to mine the worst parts of your life for a book? Authors Chad Sanders and Jamie Hood talk about how they tally up the emotional costs of memoir-writing.

Students in an elementary school broadcasting club in California are among the youngest winners of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.

Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. John Powers reviews I'm Still Here. The Atlantic's Derek Thompson talks about the "anti-social" century.

President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.

Senators in D.C. were up into the early morning hours doing a "vote-a-rama." It's part of a budget resolution process being used to unlock a path to implement President Trump's legislative agenda.

Lawyers representing 22 states and a coalition of research organizations were in federal court Friday trying to retain science funding the Trump administration wants to cut.

President Trump says he wants to eliminate the Department of Education. NPR speaks with two former education secretaries to dig into what this means and whether it's possible.

Aid groups are asking a federal judge to find USAID and State Department officials in contempt for not restoring funding to global programs. USAID says it has a legal right to cancel contracts.