With help from his brother and some creative sound effects, an 11-year-old made us smile with his podcast. It's a finalist in this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge.

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.

The president signed executive orders that would charge companies $100,000 a year to hire a worker on an H-1B visa and allow wealthy foreigners to get a visa for $1 million.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has said China is funding climate lawsuits against American oil and gas companies to weaken the U.S. He hasn't provided evidence to support the claim.

The group voted to make people who want a COVID shot to be briefed on harms and benefits, but in a close vote, it failed to pass a proposal that states should require people to get a prescription.

The late night hosts warned about the future of free speech on their shows Thursday.

George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.

In the eight months since becoming chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has waged war against the free speech of those who have reported on, criticized, or satirized the president.

Erika Kirk, 36, has a devotional podcast and Christian clothing line. She has vowed to continue her late husband's work.

Javier Bardem and Hannah Einbinder join a Hollywood boycott of Israel's film industry over Gaza, as Israel's culture minister also moves against its film academy.