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Watch The World Grow Older*, In 4 GIFs

Many rich countries, like the U.S. and Japan, are getting old. Meanwhile, countries in the developing world are staying young. Here's what that looks like over the course of a century.

The NPR Student Podcast Challenge middle school winners Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, Harrison McDonald and Blake Turley at Williams Middle School in Rockwall, Texas.

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

(L to R) Harrison McDonald, Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, Misti Knight and Blake Turkey pose for a portrait at Williams Middle School in Rockwall, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Cooper Neill / NPR)

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Austrian nuns await word from the Vatican on whether they can stay in their convent

The three octogenarian nuns broke out of a nursing home to go back to live in their convent, sparking a dispute with their church superior. Both sides have appealed to the Vatican for a resolution.

This photo illustration taken on August 13, 2021 shows a home office desk with a keyboard, a mouse and a laptop in Los Angeles, California. - In the United States, companies are delaying one after another the return of their employees to the office, worried about the new wave of contaminations with the spread of the Delta variant. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Data privacy concerns make the post-Roe era uncharted territory

Digital privacy advocates are encouraging abortion seekers to err on the side of caution. Text messages, browser histories and emails could be used in criminal investigations.

Screwball Satire With A Warm Heart In 'Bernadette'

In former television writer Maria Semple's second novel, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, 15-year-old Bee searches for her missing mother, an eccentric former architect. Semple mixes police and FBI reports, school documents and catty emails, all with commentary from Bee.

Judge declines to block Trump administration's resignation offer to federal employees

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's offer to federal employees to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through September can go forward.

The facade of Doctors Without Borders' "Pran men'm" (Take my hand) clinic is pictured in Delmas 33 comune, Port-au-Prince on November 19, 2021. - As the rising power of criminal gangs plunges Haiti deeper into chaos, health care workers are getting overwhelmed by the number of women being raped by these violent groups, and by the sheer horror of the victims' ordeals. (Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE BAERISWYL/AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors Without Borders addresses charges of racism within its ranks

Journalists have compiled instances of favoring international staff over local staff and treating people of color inequitably. A grassroots group of staffers agrees. Here's how MSF is responding.

Voters check their phones while waiting to cast in-person ballots at a polling location in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 13, 2020. Many Americans wonder why they can't vote online, on their phones, but experts agree that it's not secure.

Voting online is very risky. But hundreds of thousands of people are already doing it

The advice from cybersecurity experts is unanimous: Internet voting is a bad idea. But it's already happening in every federal election. In 2020, more than 300,000 Americans cast ballots online.

PA among 16 states suing U.S. Postal Service over lack of electric vehicles

Advocates say the USPS fleet of delivery trucks is perfect for conversion to electric vehicles, which would be in line with state and federal climate goals.

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