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About 40 percent of the Food and Drug Administration employees will go on unpaid leave starting Wednesday. The remaining staffers will respond to emergencies and continue work funded by user fees.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with New York Times correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum about actions taken by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to try and reassure investors in the stock market.

Rhode Island is among a growing number of states allowing children with autism to be treated with medical marijuana. The benefits are unproved and the full extent of the risks are unknown.

At St. Claret's School in India, snack time is time for an ethical decision. Students could toss a few coins in the box — or just take the food and walk away.

McPherson never thought he'd make a Christmas album. Then, he says, "I got a bug in my ear." He and his band perform live in studio from Socks. Originally broadcast Dec. 11, 2018.

The Guatemalan child died late in the evening on Dec. 24 in Alamogordo, N.M. He's the second child to die in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody this month.

House leadership is saying a vote is scheduled for Thursday. But the current dean of the GOP caucus says there won't be a vote until he calls it.

The president relishes speaking off the cuff, but on Christmas Eve it may have led to a regretful blunder when he insinuated a girl was too old to believe Santa is real.

At the time Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, a new social science was just taking root: economics. Dickens did not like it. NPR visits a high school performance of the play to understand the economic commentary laced throughout this holiday classic.

What's your preference: hagiography or demonization? A biopic about Ruth Bader Ginsburg is blandly positive, while another about Dick Cheney offers an extended, if entertaining, screed.