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Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than $100 billion in annual losses. Industry experts say the growing financial toll will make insurers wary of rushing to cut rates.

Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.

Food writer Andrea Nguyen dives into the story of banh mi, a Vietnamese street sandwich with a French colonial past that's been popping up on menus around the country.

From dystopian drama to Silicon Valley satire, a wave of buzzy new series — and a few big finales — arrives all at once.

Payments on federal student loans have been paused for two years, and the Biden administration appears to be considering extending the pause beyond May.

Drones aren't the only airborne worry in Europe this week. An aggressive owl is terrorizing the Dutch town of Purmerend. Hormones, perhaps? Or maybe it's just hungry.

Who needs eggs? Scientists have discovered an unusual frog species that gives birth to live tadpoles.

The celestial body was discovered in the same year Mercury died at age 45. It was dedicated to the singer in honor of what would have been his 70th birthday, his bandmate Brian May announced.

Berry, who turns 90 Tuesday, is a rock deity, but there are many for whom he is merely a famous name. NPR's Andrew Limbong was among the uninitiated — until now.

NPR's Scott Simon tells a tale of two piping plovers, endangered birds who've returned to Chicago to pair up and possibly raise another family of chicks.