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City officials are offering poorer residents a "husband for an hour" to fix a leaky faucet or to put up shelves, for example. The service is already a hit in the private sector.

Three ex-U.S. intelligence officers recently were convicted or pleaded guilty to spying for China, and the Justice Department brought almost a dozen more cases related to Chinese economic espionage.

The world is spending more on the military since global figures became available in 1988. Together, the U.S. and China make up half of the world's military spending.

The lifeblood of Silicon Valley — advanced microchips — pumps from a science park on Taiwan's west coast, mostly from TSMC, the world's biggest chipmaker. But now the company is looking abroad for places to grow.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with former customer service executive Amas Tenumah, author of Waiting for Service, on recent surveys showing Americans' dissatisfaction at record highs.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.

The Worldwide Outreach for Christ is just feet from where George Floyd was killed. NPR's Leila Fadel visits their Easter Sunday church service.

In some cases, a planet's winds could slowly bleed a world of its chance as a safe haven for life — or the winds could boil the world away, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

Renee Montagne talks to writer Josh Dean about Banana Joe, named best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. Dean is author of the book Show Dog.

Gen. Mark Hertling spent a year leading operations in the Iraqi city of Najaf. In the first of an occasional series on national service, NPR's Steve Inkseep speaks with Hertling and his wife Sue, who spent that year alone at a U.S. military base in Germany.