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The Metropolitan Museum in New York City has hired a new director. Max Hollein takes over at a time of increased visitor numbers, but also as the institution deals with financial instability.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has decided he will not seek re-election in 2018. NPR's Susan Davis explains what this means for the Republican party, his congressional seat and leadership on the Hill.

The Facebook CEO appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, after a five-hour session before two Senate committees on Tuesday. He'll take more questions about privacy and security.

Amid an uneasy tenure that saw the failure of an Obamacare repeal and the passing of tax cuts — as well as an uneven relationship with President Trump — Ryan is calling it quits.

In 2015, Hannah Miles was attending Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., when a gunman opened fire on a classroom — killing 10 people. Once the media left, Miles had to confront reality.

At her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Vitter was grilled by Democratic senators about her failure to disclose public statements of controversial anti-abortion views.

Nafissa Thompson-Spires' new story collection is full of characters coping with being not just black in a white world — but the only black person in their worlds. She says that's a hard role to fill.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Senate judiciary and commerce committees on Tuesday and the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday.

Charles Frazier was done writing about the Civil War after his award-winning novel Cold Mountain. Then he discovered the true story of the first lady of the Confederacy.

Todd Purdum's new book, Something Wonderful, is about the creative partnership and strained personal relationship behind such hit shows as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and The Sound of Music.