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Millions of Americans use cannabis and would like to think the products they buy are safe. But regulation is state by state and full of holes. NPR's new series digs into the risks and solutions.

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, it's poetry and gardening, for others, it's meditation and community.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro about his swing state, which has 19 electoral votes up for grabs.

The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

President Biden pulled U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and showed no desire for other military adventures. But the unexpected wars in Ukraine and Gaza have become defining issues of his presidency.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to win a third term, NPR visited some of his voter base in the north.

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of others.

You know that feeling when someone you're dating does this one thing that you just can't look past? Here's what scientists say about why we react this way and whether the feeling is reversible.

At the East Wind Foundation, in the heart of Los Angeles' Chinatown, young people dedicate their after-school hours and weekends to practice the traditional folk art of lion dancing.