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Gag orders ride a fine line between balancing the right to free speech and to a fair trial. They restrict what trial participants can and cannot say outside of court.

A family lives on the government side of Taiz, Yemen, while their parents and siblings are on the Houthi side. They haven't seen each other in eight years despite being a close drive away.

Bob the Drag Queen knows the world of drag is getting politicized. But as he prepares his next moves on stage and screen, he makes no apologies for expressing his signature flair.

Across the country, restaurants are under pressure to get rid of trans fats. But finding a healthier cooking oil that also holds up to extended use won't be easy. The search begins in the soybean fields of the Midwest.

Gibson's new novel is a sequel to 2014's The Peripheral, jumping back and forth in time as investigators, military contractors and killers chase down a rogue AI, and tensions flare in the Middle East.

After a cancer diagnosis, author and noted mountaineer David Roberts sets out on the trail of Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, remaining dutiful to the route some 240 years later.

Florida is expected to be a key state in the presidential election. African American women in the state's panhandle aim to make sure all voices are heard in the traditionally conservative territory.

It will no longer be illegal to terminate a pregnancy in Texas if the pregnant person's water breaks too early for the fetus to survive.

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, Music: Not Impossible brought vibrating haptic suits to a Lincoln Center dance party.

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become an international problem — and an international business. The issues of criminality and the potential for violence aside, a closer look at the "business model" of piracy reveals that the plan makes economic sense.

The evolution/creationism debate hits Broadway in a revival of Inherit the Wind. The courtroom drama explores the case of a school teacher who runs afoul of the law when he introduces evolution to his science class.

Inspired by the challenges to the current presidential administration, law professor Kim Wehle has written a guide to the founding document — and its susceptibility to interpretation.

Sarah Weinman's The Real Lolita offers a compelling argument that Nabokov's 1955 novel had its roots in the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner — despite the author's claim to the contrary.

House Republicans altered their health care bill to let states decide what coverage is required. That would make it harder to buy coverage for childbirth or chronic illness, analysts say.

The leaders' breakthrough comes after weeks of negotiations and a series of on-and-off talks. The U.S. is set to run out of money to pay its loans on June 5 if a deal is not approved by Congress.

U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Academy of Sciences call for international gene-editing standards. Critics blast statement as inadequate.

In the original 1989 animated classic, Ariel’s character is white, with long red hair. But as little Black girls packed movie theaters over the holiday weekend, they saw an Ariel who is very much a reflection of themselves.

Four soldiers in Ukraine's south have spent months making clandestine trips across the river dividing Ukrainian and Russian forces, preparing for a counteroffensive to reclaim occupied land.

World War II is often thought of as a good and just war — a war the U.S. had to fight. But it wasn't that simple. Public debate was heated between interventionism, which President Roosevelt supported, and isolationism, which aviator Charles Lindbergh became an unofficial spokesman for.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with journalist Micheline Maynard, about how high profits for major automakers over the past decade have become a central issue in the United Auto Workers strike.

Israel and Hamas confirmed that the pause in fighting will continue at least through Thursday, while more hostages and prisoners are exchanged.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi, about her latest piece titled "Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so."

Ukraine approaches winter dispirited over its ongoing war with Russia and anxious about the U.S. debate over whether to continue military and other assistance.

For the first time, the UAW is on strike against the Big 3 U.S. automakers at once. Workers at three plants have been called out so far, with more to follow Friday if there's no progress on a deal.

An initiative to revive the Indus River hopes to save this major waterway from overuse and pollution. Some 240 million people are riding on the outcome. But the financing of it is controversial.