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Senate President Wilton Simpson's proposal to consolidate prisons and demolish four facilities drew opposition from leaders in those rural communities.

As vaccine makers start testing re-tooled versions to target variants, how long will immunity hold up? And as vaccines open to all adults, some are still waiting. Why?

The account by the president's younger son is at times a harrowing journey; in the end, if not for forgiveness or sympathy, it may be about making a stand and taking whatever place he can occupy.

Medicaid, once considered the ugly duckling compared with the politically powerful and popular Medicare program, now covers nearly one in four Americans.

In a new book, Bryan Burrough and co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford challenge the historical lore of the Alamo — including the story that Davy Crockett refused to surrender.

Linguistics professor John McWhorter's new book is Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. He says some in the U.S. cultural left have taken "anti-racism" efforts to extremes.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about President Biden's latest vaccine rules for 100 million workers, and the impact on the pandemic of getting kids ages 5-11 vaccinated.

Advocates for abortion rights used to commonly assert that the procedure should be "safe, legal and rare," but that motto has become deeply controversial as the movement tries to remove stigma.

The Centers for Disease Control changed its guidelines for isolation and quarantine during this pandemic. Not everyone is sure how to define those terms. Also, not everyone is 100% behind the changes.

He and his team were stunned by the number of mutations. They felt they'd made a contribution by alerting the world to a dangerous variant. Then came the travel bans for residents of southern Africa.

Dole was in many ways the embodiment of the World War II generation in Congress. He had served in a combat division in Italy and suffered grievous wounds that kept him in military hospitals for years.

School vaccine mandates have been around for two centuries, but they've always brought pushback.

We're impressed by the ingenuity we've seen from Contest entrants making great music under less-than-ideal circumstances. If you have a song you'd like us to hear, you can enter until April 27.

For National Poetry Month, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with poet Richard Blanco about his latest work and his favorite listener-submitted poems.

"It shouldn't be a lottery of life about who gets to eat, who doesn't get to eat. Do I keep my child warm or do I give my child food?" a World Food Programme Afghanistan spokesperson tells NPR.

The world-famous aardvark first appeared in print over 45 years ago. The Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV show is about to begin its 25th and final season — and creator Marc Brown has a new book.

As India's economy has opened and grown robustly, so has Hindu pride. A lifetime after India cast off colonial rule, it's embracing a new identity and its majority Hindu faith is playing a big part.

Models used to predict flooding are based on long-term, historical records that do not reflect changes to the climate over the past decade, scientists say..

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, numerous states have banned abortion. Here are the states with bans or severe restrictions in effect, on hold or pending.

50 years on, the authors profess amazement that another president came along willing to jettison whatever conscience he had, and whatever respect for the rule of law, in an effort to stay in office.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Ibram X. Kendi about structural racism, and the debate over how to teach children about racism. His latest book is: How to Raise an Anti-Racist.

The bulk of the funds provided in the gun reform law known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act are for expanding mental health services. Will it help improve mental health outcomes and stem violence?

For jockey Edgar Prado, this year's Kentucky Derby marks two years since his win aboard Barbaro. Scott Simon talks with Prado, who has written My Guy Barbaro: A Jockey's Journey Through Love, Triumph, and Heartbreak with America's Favorite Horse.

On conservative campuses, anti-critical race theory hovers.

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968.