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As Japan plans to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea this summer, concerned South Koreans are stocking up on sea salt.

People in South Korea all became at least one year younger on Wednesday, as the country dropped a traditional method of counting their ages. Under the old system, a person was one year old at birth.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the most extreme version of the "independent state legislature theory" is expected to bring some stability to the 2024 elections — and invite more lawsuits.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Jared Bernstein, recently confirmed chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, about President Biden's "Bidenomics" pitch for the economy.

Millions of people are under heat advisories. Texas is experiencing some of the worst heat where high temperature records continue to be broken.

Justice officials arrested four more people in Texas for the deaths of migrants last year after smugglers abandoned them in a tractor-trailer without a working air conditioner in San Antonio.

After a delay of almost 18 hours, he was the only passenger on his American Airlines flight from Oklahoma to North Carolina. Everybody else had given up. He says he bonded with the crew.

Raskin has given himself until July 4th to announce his plans. He's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate after going into remission following intensive cancer treatment.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Adrienne Brodeur about her new novel, Little Monsters.

The extreme heat wave in Texas is only one of several worldwide in recent weeks. Scientists say the link to climate change is clear.