Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5507165/light-pollution-bird-day-hour-longer

The Fed chair will speak Friday at an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The speech comes as the central bank is under mounting pressure from the White House to lower interest rates. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509586/federal-reserve-jerome-powell-jackson-hole-speech

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. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84246/civil-fraud-penalty-president-trump-appeal

The world's largest retailer — like many others — has been absorbing most of the increased costs, but raising prices of some goods. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509592/walmart-tariff-costs-rising-earnings

The storm flooded parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, including a section of the main highway. It's now turning away from the East Coast, but dangerous surf and rip currents are likely from Florida to Maine. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509661/hurricane-erin-outer-banks-north-carolina-east-coast

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. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5507068/i-regret-that-i-didnt-fight-harder-former-labor-secretary-robert-reich-says

One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock to wolves every year. A new study finds that those hunts have had a measurable, but small effect on livestock depredations. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5507219/wolf-hunting-livestock-research-human-wildlife-conflict

Conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who founded Focus on the Family and was once called "the nation's most influential evangelical leader," died Thursday. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509575/focus-on-the-family-founder-james-dobson-dies-at-89

Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, which Palestinians say could dash hopes for a future Palestinian state. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509581/israel-west-bank-settlements

Erik and Lyle Menendez will get their first-ever parole hearings on Thursday and Friday, after spending more than three decades in prison for their parents' murders. Here's what to expect. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509539/menendez-brothers-parole-hearings

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian cruise missile 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. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84146/russia-ukraine-american-factory

Solar experts say there's never been a faster adoption of solar, with panels popping up on rooftops. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/21/g-s1-82369/solar-power-panels-boom-pakistan

Israel plans to call up 60,000 reservists for its new Gaza City offensive. And, North Carolina's Outer Banks is bracing for the flood and damage that Hurricane Erin could bring. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84148/up-first-newsletter-israel-reservists-gaza-ukraine-russia-north-carolina-hurricane-erin

A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-4974733/the-kids-missing-the-most-amount-of-school-may-surprise-you-kindergarteners

The attack mostly targeted western regions of the country, the air force said, where much of the military aid provided by Ukraine's Western allies is believed to be delivered and stored #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509468/russia-ukraine-drone-missile-strike-kyiv

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. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5508461/fewer-canadians-visiting-us

As people age, they may be surprised to find that younger folks don't understand what they're going through, but adult children or caretakers can do a lot to help older people adjust to a new reality. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5506233/transitions-aging-how-parents-adult-children-can-adjust

More than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 global pandemic are walking into elementary schools across the country this fall. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5506258/are-covid-kindergarteners-ready-for-school

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5508358/mercator-map-africa

The logistics of health care can be frustrating. If you have a bureaucratic horror story or need help with a tough question, reach out to Health Care Helpline from NPR and KFF Health News. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-83791/health-care-insurance-advice-help