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NPR's Hannah Chinn and Emily Kwong talk about the microbes behind great-tasting chocolate, possible reasons for daytime drowsiness, and a curious observation about the poop of seabirds.

Mortgage rates are finally dropping a bit lower at the end of a slow summer season. We take a look at what the latest data tells us about what's ahead.

Florida’s Attorney General bans the 7-OH concentrate derived from kratom that’s found in many smoke shops and vape stores. Advocates argue responsible use is therapeutic. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office launched a new program using an artificial intelligence assistant to answer non-emergency calls and decrease response times. Rising costs and dwindling time threaten the future of a long-awaited restoration project to save the historic schoolhouse built nearly a century ago to educate Black children during segregation in Lake County.

The audit was conducted over the course of 15 weeks using mostly internal surveys of staff.

Trump, in a social media post, claimed "total victory" after the ruling, which spares him from a potential half-billion-dollar fine for decades of exaggerating his wealth.

Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens his new memoir, Coming Up Short, with an apology on behalf of the Baby Boom generation for failing to build a more just society.

Two Russian cruise missiles hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The strike was part of an overnight barrage of more than 600 drones and missiles.

A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school.

Canadian residents made just 1.7 million return trips by motor vehicle back into their country from the U.S. in July, a nearly 37% decline over the same month in 2024, according to Statistics Canada.

The National Guard has been deployed many times historically. Experts say the president's decision to deploy the Guard as a blanket response to crime in D.C. is a departure from its intended mission.