Skiing in Alabama? Thanks to last week's winter storms in the South, it's possible. And yes, Alabama has a ski lift.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. "Weird Al" Yankovic ...

A Muslim school near Birmingham, Ala., was thriving — winning academic awards, increasing enrollment and looking to expand.

A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.

Gaza's main border crossing reopened Monday after being closed for most of the war, but few people have been allowed to cross.

They are the latest Palestinians in Gaza to die since a ceasefire deal, which has been punctuated by deadly Israeli strikes, came into effect on Oct. 10, 2025.

The Israeli military said one strike came after it spotted and struck several people who were operating a drone in central ...

The iconic Syrian city of Kobane, where Kurds fought ISIS with the U.S., is now under threat.

NPR's Scott Simon asks director Gus Van Sant about his new movie, "Dead Man's Wire," based on a true story of a 1977 kidnapping.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Alex Horne and Greg Davies about the U.S. tour of their British show "Taskmaster," where comedians are assigned silly or pointless tasks.

WASHINGTON — A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, who officials say had a direct tie to the Islamic State member ...

The first five minutes of the new season of The Pitt instantly capture the state of medicine in the mid-2020s: a hectic emergency department waiting room; a sign warning that aggressive behavior will ...