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Since the NCAA tournament expanded in 1985, no 16 seed had ever beaten a top-seeded team. Until UMBC beat the stuffing out of Virginia, the best team in the country, Friday night.

The policy, meant to discourage the smuggling of contraband into prisons, was to have gone into effect next month.

The idea of "green" roofs -- covering the tops of buildings with plants, trees and grasses -- is as ancient as Mesopotamia. Touted as a solution to pollution and other environmental problems, they're increasingly showing up around the country. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.

The Harry Styles song has managed to stay No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 15 weeks. That's a feat topped by only three other songs in history.

The top commander in Iraq testifed about the status of the year-long "surge," on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

The Grammy-winning rapper, who spent this summer topping the charts, previously performed at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. But this will be his first Super Bowl as the headliner.

A Wisconsin judge is charged with helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents. It's a rare prosecution but not unheard of — a similar case unfolded seven years ago in Massachusetts.

Despite being in one of the most dangerous regions in the world, Nicaragua remains relatively peaceful. Analysts credit its style of policing, which has rejected the iron fist policies of neighbors.

A group of nurses is competing for $10,000 in a weight-loss contest. A New York man motivated himself by pledging to donate to a cause he hated. Both approaches use money to reach a target weight. But which is better — the carrot or the stick?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly checks in with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, to find out how the organization is doing right now.