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A new University of California Davis study found that one in five Americans think that political violence is at least sometimes justifiable “in general.”

2023 broke video game industry records, both in the quantity and quality of acclaimed, financially successful games. NPR staff and contributors bring you their favorites.

The dispute follows Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The 1.6 billion euro helicopter carriers are sitting in French dockyards.

The more than two-decade-old investigation into who killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, in 1981 has come to a close. Police in Florida say Ottis Toole, a serial killer who died in prison in 1996, decapitated Adam Walsh.

Japan's main index fell more than 6 percent. South Korea was down more than 3 percent. Hong Kong's main stock average fell nearly 5 percent, partly on grim economic news out of China. The drop in world markets follows a nearly 8 percent plunge in the Dow, after the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a report declaring that the U.S. officially is in recession.

In an attempt to increase the number of foster parents in Chautauqua County, the Chautauqua Department of Mental Hygiene and Social Services' Home Finding Team will host a foster parent open house.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will crash into Saturn in a few hours, but we'll always have the shots it took of icy volcanoes, hexagonal storms, ethane lakes and ripples in Saturn's rings.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WBEZ listener Corinna Christman of Chicago, Illinois, and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with VPM listener Kathleen Martin of Richmond, Va., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Last year, JPMorgan Chase acknowledged that it lost $6.2 billion in a hedging strategy gone awry. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has spent months investigating how the losses occurred, and on Friday, it will publicly grill some of the executives involved.