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Thousands of people are imprisoned for decades, if not life, because of tough drug sentences. Now judges, lawyers and advocates ask whether it's time to dial back those penalties.

Hillsborough School Board members voted 4-3 Tuesday at a special meeting to ban "This Book is Gay" by Juno Dawson from all middle schools in the county.

Around the world, new gin distilleries are popping up like mushrooms after a rain. NPR traces the boom to its historic roots in London, which once had 250 distilleries within the city limits alone.

Democrats, who boycotted the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to move Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the full Senate, held a news conference.

Longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen's party was assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression any real opposition.

While writer Stephen King was recovering from a near-fatal car accident, he finished a nonfiction book about the craft of writing. In a 2000 interview with Terry Gross, King talked about the demons that haunted him after the accident — and how writing helped his recovery process.

Another 10,100 are reported missing from flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, the Libyan Red Crescent says.

The Rev. Otis Moss is set to take over as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, the church Illinois Sen. Barack Obama attends. Moss talks to Michele Noris about the most famous member of his congregation and the now-controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from enforcing a rule allowing insurers to refuse to insure dialysis patients who get financial assistance from charity groups.

To mark his 100 days in office, President Obama held a prime-time news conference Wednesday. It was the third news conference of his presidency and the first not dominated by the recession. The president promised to keep up the whirlwind pace.

Saturday's events drew thousands of demonstrators, mobilized in opposition to President Trump and the likely Senate confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

The popular Children's Health Insurance Program is up for renewal Sept. 30. Policy analysts say it's unclear whether a deeply divided Congress facing major deadlines will get the job done.

Whether humans are apes depends on culturally embedded ways we frame our work in science, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

Douglas Kearney tells NPR's Rachel Martin about the anguish of miscarriages and the tough decisions presented by in vitro fertilization — experiences that inspired his latest book, Patter.

A baby is snatched away by goblins in Maurice Sendak's unsettling children's book, Outside Over There. Commentator Amanda Katz says she loved this book as a child, and only later understood why it made adults so uncomfortable.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Hiba Husseini and Yossi Beilin, who were negotiators from different sides, for a peace plan. Earlier this year they proposed a new peace plan for the region.

At stake are Poland's legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

How to deal with burnout and ageism at work, and what to do when your boss treats you differently because of your political views.

Kevin West, author and blogger, takes NPR's Lynn Neary to a farmers market to choose the summer's best produce for canning. "You take this experience ... and you put it in the jar. And six months from now we will re-experience that moment," West says.

The jump is 12% more than the year before and came as rents and inflation skyrocketed. The increase was driven by families and those who lost housing for the first time.

After weeks of silence, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a motion admitting to having a relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade.

As the incumbent president, Biden had been expected to carry the "first in the West" state-run primary. Meanwhile, some Republican voters described a new voting system as confusing and frustrating.

As Congress moves forward with a $4.5 billion humanitarian aid bill to address the border crisis, migrants still arrive each day. But U.S. policy is beginning to shift the crisis to the Mexican side.

Cicadas, and the way they urinate, offer a 'perfect' lab for understanding fluid dynamics at very small scales, researchers say

The storm left a wide swath of rising water, known as storm surge, across Florida's Gulf Coast.