Steve played drums beginning at 8 years old ... his nephew Jeff Spindel of Virginia Beach, and his best friend Earl Cofield. His family imagines he is now surf fishing on the Outer Banks listening ...

The phrase "Give me liberty or give me death!" has survived the centuries like a line in a Shakespeare play. It's been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to ...

But this Tidewater Virginia city is so much more than its colonial history. From modern shopping to gourmet dining, Williamsburg is a bustling getaway destination where you can pack an entire ...

But the scant details offered so far by the VA make it unclear whether the program will be replaced by a different rescue program — or whether the move will strand thousands of other vets ...

After Trump’s sweeping tariff rollouts, the U.S. must act fast with bold tax cuts, regulatory relief, and a smarter Fed strategy to avoid deeper economic fallout. Families face a $3,000 tax hike ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks about results of special elections in Wisconsin and Florida with J. Miles Coleman, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia who has been tracking the races closely.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Booker's speech broke the previous record set in 1957 by Senator Strom Thurmond, who opposed a civil rights bill back then for slightly over 24 hours. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Solid wins for Republicans, although the margins were a little bit less than they were just last year. In Wisconsin, in what became the most expensive judicial race in ...

Some other news now. The Trump administration has begun a round of layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Thousands of employees were fired just yesterday. As NPR's Selena Simmons ...

Barbara, good morning. BARBARA SPRUNT, BYLINE: Hey. Good morning, Steve. INSKEEP: I'm curious about this. When you're covering a 25-hour speech, do you stay there for the whole thing hanging on ...

Almost any American store or home has goods in it made in China, but I never thought I could visit a single place where much of it is sold. Yiwu International Trade City, a giant wholesale market in ...