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NPR's Scott Simon honors the legacy of theatrical producer and director Hal Prince, who died this week at the age of 91.

"Environmental personhood" was once considered a fringe issue, but several countries have granted rivers within their borders legal person status. Bangladesh became the latest in July.

The Supreme Court justice sat down for an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg and said that despite battling cancer for a third time earlier this year, she's not going anywhere anytime soon.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Simon Fuller and John Downer about their new nature documentary series, Serengeti.

American rapper A$AP Rocky has been released from jail in Sweden after being held in custody for a month on assault charges. Unusually, President Trump sent a hostage negotiator to intervene.

Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant about the Red Sox and the Yankees battling this weekend, the Astros, and the death of an NFL great that's renewing concern about concussions.

It turns out it's pretty hard to get a consensus on what qualifies as a "mass shooting."

China's central bank appears to have orchestrated the yuan's fall against the U.S. dollar. A weaker currency makes Chinese goods more competitive on the world market.

He was seen as a chief architect of the regime's brutal collectivist policies that led to the deaths of some 1.7 million people. He was found guilty of war crimes by a U.N.-backed tribunal last year.

An interdisciplinary team in San Francisco uses acupressure, massage, counseling and other methods, as well as medicine, to help kids get relief from chronic pain. But such pediatric centers are rare.