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Congress has approved two major spending bills to fund the federal government through September 2020. The package heads to the president's desk for his signature.

Broad swaths of the Amazon Rainforest burned this year. An NPR correspondent met one character deep in the rainforest who told him something that didn't end up in a radio story but stuck with him.

For years, low wage workers have had to wait two weeks between paychecks, a long time. But technology and a tight labor market could be changing that.

The movie musical Cats premieres this week. It adapts Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical of the same name, which is both divisive and still very popular.

NPR's David Greene speaks with Steven Law, head of the Senate Leadership Fund, about Republican fundraising gains in the wake of impeachment.

In India, some singers have been going for a world record for the "longest marathon karaoke by multiple participants."

Miss Virginia won the Miss America 2020 crown Thursday after impressing the crowd with her talent. She performed the show's first science experiment on stage as the talent portion of the pageant.

A man in Las Cruces, N.M., hit a Pizza Hut. And while running out he face-planted into a glass door. He left DNA behind.

Secrets of Inuit parenting, a Mongolian heavy metal band and a controversial medical center in Uganda were among the topics that drew the most readers.

After a flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the crew capsule, loaded with 600 pounds of cargo for the station, was unable to reach its intended orbit, Boeing says.