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After two long strikes and the pandemic disruption, this is the year everything comes back. True Detective returns, now set in Alaska. And Echo is a Marvel series mostly shorn of superheroes.

Toy-makers are warning of emptier shelves and pricier toys this holiday season. Their supplies are ensnarled in floating traffic jams of container ships wallowing near key U.S. ports.

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

The price of Thin Mints is going up in some parts of the country next year, as Girl Scouts and their customers get a lesson in inflation.

Michael Sanchez was testing out his new camera when he happened upon a feathered subject. The blue rock-thrush he photographed on the coast of northern Oregon last week has excited the birding world.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's liaison to the North Carolina General Assembly says he's optimistic that lawmakers may finally be ready to let districts open schools earlier in August.

How do you cool down without air conditioning? Our readers respond with clever hacks involving towels, ice packs — and a pickle.

The NBA Playoffs get underway later Tuesday and — for the first time ever — not a single team from Texas will be playing and all four teams from California made the playoffs.

Mayorkas becomes the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876. The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to leave Mayorkas in office.

Wildland firefighters are in demand these days, but federal money to pay their salaries is quickly running out.