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This year's MacArthur Fellows — recipients of what's commonly called the Genius Grant — include artists, scientists, dancers and more. They'll each receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 award.

The novel is simultaneously wise and silly, moving and inscrutable. It is also indisputably working hard to be new.

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka talks about his new memoir with Renee Montagne. It is an intimate look into Nigeria's political turmoil in the last half century.

After fatal March shootings at Minnesota's Red Lake High School, most students did not return to class for the rest of the school year. As a new term begins, school officials address security concerns.

Aleksandra Shchebet fled Kyiv when the bombing began, found refuge in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk — and decided to stay and help her country in any way she could.

Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, becoming only the tenth woman to receive the honor. The feminist author is best known for her autobiographical novel, The Piano Teacher. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

Clinics in the Pacific Northwest are ordering 10 times the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella as they normally do because some who have avoided vaccines are changing their minds.

President Biden's approach to legislating so far is winning plaudits from political strategists, left and right. His massive jobs and infrastructure plan poses a new challenge.

After seven seasons, HBO's Veep ends this Sunday. The biting, wacky political satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus started outrageous and kept going, even as real-life events seemed to catch-up.

The rift is growing between Kentucky governor, one of the least popular in the country, and lieutenant governor after he failed to choose her as his running mate for his reelection campaign.