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Rick Spinrad previously served as the agency's top scientist. His nomination comes at a difficult period for NOAA, which spent the Trump administration mired in scandal and without a permanent leader.

Our searchable commencement app is now updated with the best speeches from 2014 and 2015.

A big thanks to all of you who took the time to sample St. Louis' local music scene and submit your videos to NPR's Tiny Desk Contest . NPR Music's...

"There's a joke going around that once the quarantine ends, everyone's going to be like a thousand times better," says one college esports competitor.

In a time of polarization and political division, NPR and StoryCorps explore whether simple but courageous acts — talking and listening — can be a countervailing force to national discord.

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

The two diplomats will meet for the first time in the aftermath of the balloon crisis earlier this month.

President Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

When the votes came in for Prospect magazine's list of the top 100 public intellectuals, at No. 1 was Turkish Sufi cleric Fethullah Gulen. Prospect Magazine editor Tom Nuttall says Gulen's global network of supporters propelled him to the top spot.

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