As Vietnam grows ties with U.S., a secret directive seeks to gird the Communist Party
A leaked document offers a window into the motivations and concerns of party leaders as they seek to deepen ties with the U.S.
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'Excess deaths' in Gaza for next 6 months projected in first-of-its-kind effort
A team of researchers tried something that's never been done as a conflict rages. Instead of trying to calculate the toll of war in the moment, they looked forward. What's the reaction to their study?
Got COVID? CDC says stay home while you're sick, but drops its 5-day isolation rule
The agency is replacing its COVID-specific guidance with general guidance for respiratory viruses that says people should stay home when they are sick.
Aboard Jordan's aid airdrop over Gaza, a last resort for relief to Palestinians there
NPR flew along as the Jordanian air force dropped pallets of boxes of much-needed aid attached to parachutes into the Gaza Strip.
After nearly a decade, Oprah Winfrey is set to depart the board of WeightWatchers
The announcement comes amid falling profits for the company. WeightWatchers has been facing declining stock prices since November as weight loss drugs, known as GLP1s, have soared in popularity.
CVS and Walgreens to start dispensing abortion pill in states where it's legal
CVS will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Walgreens will start in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Illinois.
Who cooked up butter chicken? A court seeks the answer. Plus: Madhur Jaffrey's recipe
Two families are battling for bragging rights as the inventor of the wildly popular dish. Will the truth come out? Or it could be there's another origin story involving ... British tastebuds?
When celebrities show up to protest, the media follows — but so does the backlash
The Middle East crisis has sharply divided Hollywood. Celebrities who've spoken out have lost jobs and been harassed. But there's a long history of celebrities lending their voices to bigger causes.
A story of Jewish Shanghai, told through music
A fictional tale of the real-life Jewish community in Shanghai during World War II — with a cross-cultural love story at its heart — is premiering at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI for choosing profits over 'the benefit of humanity'
A former co-chair of OpenAI, Musk says he invested millions in the AI lab on "false promises" that it would be nonprofit and open-source. OpenAI is now backed by Microsoft.