For people with damaged or diminished hearing, hearing aids are helpful devices that shouldn't carry stigma.

A string of shooting deaths of Chicago high-schoolers shocks and saddens, despite a decrease in the city's homicide rate.

Charles Osgood, who died this week at age 91, was too modest to call himself a poet.

Comedian George Carlin has been dead more than 15 years, but AI George Carlin is out with "new" material.

Thefts of French bulldogs are up nationwide, possibly because they're like jewelry: small, cute and expensive.

NPR's Scott Simon recounts a recent encounter with a certain robust, white-bearded fellow in a red suit.

NPR's Scott Simon talks about Malört, a subjectively foul-tasting spirit beloved by Chicagoans who like to prove how impervious they are to good taste.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers television producer Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101.

NPR's Scott Simon talks about how much he enjoys watching school stage productions this time of year and why.

Scott Simon remarks on how details during times of war, from personal stories, capture the true devastation of it.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Indiana Hoosier's basketball coach Bobby Knight, who died this week at the age of 83.

NPR's Scott Simon visited the Inn of Chicago this week, where migrants are now being housed. The building is the same one his father died in 55 years ago.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has used AI for robocalls in Mandarin, Yiddish, and other languages he doesn't speak IRL. NPR's Scott Simon ponders the downsides of this.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Charles Feeney, the philanthropist who quietly gave away $8 billion before his death this week.

NPR's Scott Simon considers the plight of the average American's over-notified life, with cellphones beeping and chiming around 70 times a day.