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The National Weather Service is dealing with staff shortages and DOGE cuts as hurricane season nears. NPR's Scott Simon asks former NWS meteorologist Brian LaMarre about the impact of the cuts.

Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98.

For Joe Biden's first two years as president, Jen Psaki was his press secretary. Now she's joined MSNBC's primetime ranks as questions swirl around her former boss' health.

The team behind Sensorium Ex worked for five years to develop sophisticated technology that uses artificial intelligence and vocal sampling to create an expressive voice.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele talk about the Indy 500 and the incredible run of the Indiana Pacers through the NBA playoffs.

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Army Major Carol Kirk. She deployed to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1969 and remembers some of the men she cared for.

Author Yiyun Li has lost two teenage sons to suicide. Her new book is about how to think about life after the unimaginable. It's called "Things in Nature Merely Grow."

NPR Scott Simon talks to Adam Roberts about his debut novel, "Food Person." It's about a food writer ghostwriting a cookbook for a celebrity who doesn't actually like food.

Trump's misleading video of a 'burial site' for white South African farmers reopened 'new wounds,' victim's son tells NPR.

Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sitcom Cheers. He died this week at the age of 76.