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Dick Conant continually canoed rivers across America before mysteriously disappearing in 2014.

A United Nations-mandated Fact-Finding Mission issued a scathing report documenting Myanmar security forces' violence against the country's ethnic Rohingya Muslim population last year.

Indian officials were in the U.S. earlier in October for talks about an alleged plot to target an American activist. He talks about how having a target on his back has changed his life.

Staffing shortages are hitting hospitals, airlines, and schools. The nation's economy and critical infrastructure are straining under omicron.

The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is "proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function."

A new book by the journalist Jessica Bruder describes the increasing number of Americans living on the road, often in RVs, moving from job to job as a way to avoid the expense of a permanent home. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Bruder about her book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.

Food as a symbol of politics, diet, gender roles, technology, isolation, gluttony and blatant commercialism has been with us for ages and in many forms. A massive exhibit explores how American artists, from Pilgrim times to Andy Warhol, used paintings of food to shape and reflect our national identity.

The merger would create the country's largest airline, but the Justice Department says it would violate antitrust law.

There were a number of eye-opening findings in the Jan. 6 committee's fourth hearing that showed the depth and breadth of Trump and his allies' pressure on local and state officials.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with New York Times Magazine writer Jay Caspian Kang about former police officer Peter Liang and the issues his conviction brings up in Asian-American identity politics.