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With immunity ruling, the Supreme Court is again the focus of politics. Hurricane Beryl is so strong, in part because of record high ocean temps. Catholic Church names its first millennial saint.

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back — and spending more money than before.

China's slowdown and plummeting oil prices have investors spooked, and some are heading for the exits. There's concern the selloff in stocks signals tougher times ahead for the U.S. economy.

A version of the word sustainable appears at least 75 times in the sustainable development goals the U.N. will endorse this weekend. We asked some analysts to tell us what, exactly, it means.

A summit between leaders of China and Taiwan this Saturday will be the first in more than 60 years. It complicates Taiwan's already high-stakes presidential race.

The latest accomplishment for gene therapy involves mice with inherited deafness. Meanwhile, the drugmaker Novartis is conducting the first trial of gene therapy for people with hearing loss.

NPR'S Kelly McEvers interviews Saudi Arabia expert Gregory Gause, professor of international Affairs at Texas A&M University and previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, about Arab countries breaking diplomatic ties with Qatar.

Rachel Martin talks to Peter Kirkham, a former detective police inspector with London's Metropolitan Police Service, about how a reduced British police force may negatively impact terror probes.

In the 15 years since the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established to house suspected terrorists, a green buffer surrounding the facility to keep out the world has reverted back to the wild. Now some scientists would like to turn it into a protected research area.

A man in Oregon is challenging the math behind red light camera tickets. Mats Järlström calculates that drivers who end up in an intersection when the light goes yellow can be trapped in a no-win dilemma, particularly if they are making a turn. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Aarian Marshall, who wrote about the case for Wired magazine.