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NPR's reporters on the choices and challenges of writing obituaries.

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

President Trump says he thinks big companies would use the program to hire foreign students graduating from top U.S. colleges, keeping top talent in America.

Federal investigators are piecing together what led the gunman to try to kill former President Trump. There’s also a push to get to the bottom of how this massive security failure was able to happen.

Fighters have settled across northern Syria, surprising displaced Syrians who've tried to return to their homes. Nearly a year after the war's end, sorting out property ownership remains a pressing issue.

A Radiohead song from the '90s has just made its Billboard chart debut — 28 years later.

The rivers and streams of western North Carolina are still recovering from Hurricane Helene almost a year later. Contractors have pulverized those streams with heavy equipment to remove storm debris — causing a second ecological disaster in the storm’s wake.

NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke with Shahidul Alam, a photojournalist, writer and activist based in Dhaka, about the longtime prime minister of Bangladesh fleeing amid protests.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Suzanne Rowan Kelleher of Forbes about how travelers can try to minimize delays now and in the holiday season given the FAA-mandated flight cancellations.

Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, will be the next mayor of New York City. NPR's A Martinez speaks to WNYC'S Brigid Bergin about the race that energized young voters and the challenges he faces.