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Stocks were pummeled on Friday with the Nasdaq slumping more than 4% to post its worst month since 2008. Why things have gotten so bad in Wall Street.

Georges Simenon's Dirty Snow, a noir chronicle of a mean, vicious soul, is anything but the feel-good read of the summer. But novelist Jim Hynes is going to recommend it to you anyway.

As the world waits for definitive news about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, he remains in serious condition at a Jerusalem hospital. Doctors will begin bringing him out of a drug-induced coma on Sunday. They offer scant hope for a full recovery.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers told NPR it's obvious why the Supreme Court wants to keep their process secret: "No organization really wants to show how the sausage is made."

Although monkeypox's recent spread has caused concern, its similarities to smallpox have given the public health world a head start on combating it.

Melissa Block talks to Michael Parmly, former Chief of Mission for the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, about the U.S.' new relationship with Cuba.

Commissioned by NPR in partnership with Ipsos, the poll also highlights sharp partisan divides on key foreign policy issues.

Infants' Tylenol is the same strength as Children's Tylenol. Turns out, the price difference has to do with packaging and safety features.

Olympic athletes strive to win gold, silver and bronze medals. But there was a different prize when the games originated in Greece more than 2,700 years ago.

Most analysts think the world currently makes more oil than it needs — and the kind of oil abundant in Venezuela is a particularly hard-to-refine type of crude. So would U.S. companies even want it?