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Four nonprofits joined a federal lawsuit to protect people in Texas prisons from the heat. It's one of several attempts over the years to address this issue, but efforts haven't gotten much traction.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been given 24 hours to hand in his passport. Some of his closest advisors have been targeted in a police investigation into an alleged coup attempt.

We hear from Myles Lock who will be a volunteer runner setting a pace for other runners in this weekend's TCS NYC Marathon.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death for her involvement in the use of deadly force against protesters last year. She fled to India and was sentenced in absentia.

The drugmaker Mallinckrodt is working to avoid payments to people who have struggled with addiction to opioids, as originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Host Rachel Martin talks with Father Mike McGovern of the Church of Saint Mary in Lake Forest, Ill., about what the new pope means to his congregation, starting with the homily at Sunday's Mass.

David Grizzle, the Chief Operating Officer and head of air traffic control for the FAA during the Obama administration, talks about current air traffic issues.

What would it mean to classify Mexican drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations"? NPR speaks with Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA.

Georgia will hold primary elections Tuesday. Republicans have dominated the state's politics for nearly 20 years. But with demographic change and GOP in-fighting, that control is in danger.

Protests after the killing of George Floyd are changing politics. In one Phoenix-area congressional district, three of the four Democrats running in the primary are people of color.

President Trump's lawsuits seeking to challenge the election results in key states haven't gained much traction. We'll explain why.

As more Texans get their water restored, fallout from the mass blackout continues. There have been resignations from the body that oversees the grid, and lawmakers open their investigation tomorrow.

The Mardi Gras season is usually a fun and festive affair. But this year, a year after the celebration led New Orleans to become one of the nation's first COVID-19 hot spots, it's different.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks withWashington Post columnist George Will about the future of the Republican Party, which pits Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against former President Donald Trump.

In a "window moment," the poet says, a work shifts and expands: "By glancing for a moment at something else, the field of the poem becomes larger. What's in the room with the poem is bigger."

In part because of her own experience of online harassment, software engineer Tracy Chou launched Block Party, an anti-harassment startup that aims to help people feel safer on social media.

Brigham Young University's race committee has released a study assessing race issues on campus. Committee member and BYU law professor Michalyn Steele breaks down their findings and recommendations.

China's ruling Communist Party has declared "total victory" over extreme poverty. Did that really happen, and if so, how?

Democrats used vote-by-mail ballots extensively in the last election.

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown shares with Steve Inskeep the best things she's been reading lately: on making too much money, almost selling sex, and murder in a city known for sin.

Born of an American mother and a Pakistani father, writer Daniyal Mueenuddin sees himself as somewhat of a translator, interpreting life in a remote part of Pakistan for a Western audience. His new book of short stories is In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

Jury selection is complete in the high-profile murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. It took over two weeks to pick the jury.

Recent assaults on Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area have sparked debates within the community around policing. Divisions over how to keep people safe are falling along generational lines.

Questions are mounting over the claim by U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte that he and three other competitors were robbed by Brazilian police early one morning. Evidence suggests the swimmers made the story up.

Hundreds of counties in dozens of states have less money to pay for schools, roads, health clinics and other basic services because of the loss of timber payments. In the 1990s, battles over the spotted owl slowed logging in the Pacific Northwest to a trickle. For the next two decades, once timber-dependent counties in Oregon and elsewhere came to rely on payments from the federal government to make up for lost revenues. Now, the law authorizing those payments has expired. Oregon Public Broadcasting's David Nogueras reports.