From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Poet Iman Mersal's book is a memoir of her search for knowledge about the writer Enayat al-Zayyat; it's a slow, idiosyncratic journey through a layered, changing Cairo — and through her own mind.

When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will still be some roadblocks for science.

What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.

Google's landmark antitrust lawsuit wraps today. Steve Inskeep celebrates 20 years as Morning Edition host. After a week of silence, Biden addresses the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.

The 10% drop in year-over-year iPhone sales for the January-March period is latest sign of weakness in a product that generates most of Apple's revenue.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued a notice of intent to approve an application by Clearwater Land & Minerals LLC to drill for oil in the area.

With a law now in effect preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Florida health-care regulators Thursday released emergency rules related to treating medical conditions that pose dangers to ...

The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and several ongoing lawsuits.

Indiana has its first competitive primary for governor in two decades, as six Republicans vie for their party's nomination.

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in ...

Dean's family says he quickly fell into critical condition after being diagnosed with a MRSA bacterial infection. He is the ...