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As Biden stated, crossings often rise during the early months of the year as the weather improves. But the number of unaccompanied children arriving is considerably higher than in the recent years.

Finding a job or changing your career in the midst of a pandemic is hard. We collected questions from four listeners about their journeys to find jobs, and posed them to career coach Akhila Satish.

Murakami's new story collection, First Person Singular, touches some of his favorite subjects — jazz, baseball, classical music — but also highlights some of the unexplained oddities of life.

The first volume of Kaoru Takamura's 1997 eccentric crime thriller has just been translated into English. Inspired by a real-life case, Lady Joker reveals its world in rich, polyphonic detail.

At Stanford University, an assignment for a class on markets led to an experiment using economic thinking to match undergrads together romantically. It's a great way to understand many other markets.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who helped organize a call of more than 100 corporate leaders, to discuss their response to voting bills.

For a long time, the Catholic Church rejected scientific findings that conflicted with its doctrine, even persecuting Galileo. Now the Vatican looks to promote its observatory as a bridge to science.

After a stroke, people often lose dexterity in one hand. Now, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized a device that can restore function by encouraging the brain to rewire.

Eight of the children were traveling in a van belonging to a youth ranch operated by the Alabama Sheriffs Association for abused or neglected children. A 9-month-old baby died in a separate vehicle.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Ambassador Ross Wilson, who serves as Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, about Afghanistan's future following the withdrawal of U.S. troops.