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MacKenzie Scott, billionaire philanthropist. Last month she announced that her donations since 2019 have totaled more than $14 billion and helped fund around 1,600 nonprofits. But as much as the scale, it is her untraditional style of giving that is causing a stir.

MacKenzie Scott is shaking up philanthropy's traditions. Is that a good thing?

Donations often come with rigorous applications and reporting requirements. Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019 and vowed to give away most of her fortune, does it her way.

The far-right and environmentalism overlap is bigger than you think — and growing

The modern environmental movement and the far-right movement might appear to be on opposing sides of the political ideology spectrum. But overlap does exist and researchers say it's growing.

At some of Michigan's most remote lighthouses, women helped maintained the light

The Gull Rock Lighthouse sits on a small, remote island just off the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. Between 1872 and 1903, a series of three women lived and worked as assistant lighthouse keepers there. Michigan Radio talked to the great-great grandson of one of those women.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany, on March 22. Tesla shares sank on Tuesday, a day after Twitter accepted a takeover offer from Musk.

Tesla shares sink, wipe out over $125 billion in value, as Musk scores Twitter deal

Tesla shares dropped 12.2%, wiping out more than $125 billion off its market value, over worries about how it would be impacted as Elon Musk looks to complete his takeover of Twitter.

Meet the MI Supreme Court Candidates: Richard Bernstein

This year, Michigan voters will elect justices to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court. Two of the seven seats will be filled. They'll go to the candidates with the two highest vote totals. Michigan Radio's Morning Edition is featuring interviews with each of the five candidates running for the court.

An information sign is displayed as a child arrives with her parent to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11-years-old at London Middle School in Wheeling, Ill., last month.

Pfizer plans to test a third dose of its COVID vaccine on infants and young children

Pfizer and BioNTech, which produced the first COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., say they will expand ongoing trials to include a third dose for children as young as 6 months old.

Fans look on as the ambulance leaves carrying Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin off the field on Jan. 2 after he collapsed after making a tackle against the Cincinnati Bengals.

How Damar Hamlin's collapse fueled anti-vaccine conspiracy theories

In the absence of information about why the Buffalo Bills player collapsed during a game, misleading claims about COVID vaccines quickly spread online.

Pico Iyer's 'The Half Known Life' upends the conventional travel genre

After years of traversing the globe as the Dalai Lama's biographer and observing how people struggle in searching for meaning, Iyer wonders what kind of paradise can be found in our fractious world.

NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak during at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Totenberg and Ginsburg met in the 1970s and remained friends until Ginsburg's death in 2020.

Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The NPR legal affairs correspondent met the future SCOTUS justice in the early '70s, when Totenberg interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a story about a decision pertaining to women's rights.

Hundreds of rallies were planned today across the country to push for gun safety laws.

Photos: See the March for Our Lives rallies across the country

The student-led rallies push for gun violence prevention. Congress is facing pressure to act in the wake of several mass shootings.

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