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House Republicans are scrambling to coalesce around a small number of candidates to be Speaker of the House but the path to electing someone is unclear.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with the Wilson Center's Robin Wright about the killing of three U.S. service members in a drone strike in Jordan, and the widening conflict in the Middle East.

Whatever happened to movie soundtracks? They used to generate hit after hit for pop radio. Now, they're few and far between.

Two marathoners clocked in under two hours in London. We talk to one researcher about the role of shoes in making the impossible possible.

The week in politics ushered in a new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives — after 22 days — and more foreign policy challenges for the Biden administration.

Research suggests border collies help keep beaches clean by chasing away gulls that leaving their droppings in the sand and on water.

With an en vogue unaffected croon, the DJ and producer best known for his work with Jordan Rakei and Kaytranada in the London electronic scene steps in front of the mic for his debut album, Geography.

Demonstrations against the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon have been growing on the streets of Arab capitals. Pro-American Arab leaders are recalibrating their positions. U.S. hopes of keeping them on board for a wider Middle East initiative may be eroding.

Computerized voices read newspaper stories from the 1918 flu pandemic in this haunting audio project. "I wanted it to sound like a broadcast from a dystopian future," says artist Jordan Baseman.

Hours after Mohammed Morsi's naming as president-elect of Egypt, the Iranian news media praised what it called Morsi's desire to warm ties with Tehran. Such a move would enrage Gulf Arab states and cause problems with Israel and the U.S. With a long list of domestic problems on his plate, will Egypt's new Islamist leader wade into regional disputes?