Holiday traditions don't all come with matching sweaters and cookie recipes — some are stranger, funnier, and deeply personal. We asked our listeners to share their unconventional holiday traditions.

This month, the Orleans select board voted to expand the town's child care grant program to include infants—not just toddlers and young children.

Brown University placed the campus police chief on leave and hired retired Providence police chief Hugh Clements Jr. to take over on an interim basis as the federal government announced it was ...

Also in theaters this week, Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in a meta reimagining of Anaconda, Amanda Seyfried in a Shaker origin story, and Ralph Fiennes plays a World War I-era choirmaster.

Mail theft can happen around the holidays, but sometimes, instead of getting a new iPad, the thief swipes a mail order medicine. Here's what to do about it.

Blue spotted salamanders have been seen walking across snow and new research suggests how they get by in the cold.

The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues, but sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland remain unresolved.

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.

The Trump administration says it wants to establish a quota for next year to denaturalize up to 200 American citizens per month.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with immigration attorney Marium Masumi Daud about the Trump administration's efforts to take away citizenship from some naturalized Americans.

A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize.