From predawn mall walkers and Cinnabon dough rollers to roller coaster riders and exhausted shoppers, these are the sounds of 24 hours at the U.S.'s largest mall.

Young people today spend nearly 1,000 fewer hours per year hanging out with friends in person than they did 20 years ago.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James about his new HBO series set in Jamaica. It is called "Get Millie Black." ...

People are getting cancer earlier and living longer, meaning they're having to figure out how to navigate various aspects of life after diagnosis.

As results start to come in the Ireland election polls, NPR looks at exit poll data, and who's likely to lead Ireland's next government.

We look at how one US conservationist's work is helping preserve Chile's wilderness at the southernmost tip of the South American continent.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Seuk Kim, a volunteer animal rescue pilot who died in a crash earlier this week, transporting ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research, about Germany's weakened economy and its potential impact on the country's upcoming elections.

NPR's Emily Feng bids goodbye to Asia — and to Taiwan's strict trash collection system, which she unexpectedly grew to love.

When a child fell from the stands during a football game, Kansas City Chiefs lineman Tershawn Wharton made an amazing catch.

We look at efforts to shore up the Ukrainian military as well as its negotiated ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah in the final months of the Biden administration.

NPR's Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media discuss which teams in the NFL are the Super Bowl title contenders, and controversy over high payrolls in Major League Baseball.