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"It’s possible that the most important thing my mother did for me was to not see herself primarily as the mom of a disabled child."

Ten people were killed in Monday's shooting at a Boulder grocery store. NPR's Noel King talks to Erika Mahoney of member station KAZU in California about her dad, who was among the victims who died.

Gorbachev was the Soviet Union's last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War. The hospital that treated him said he died of a serious and protracted disease.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, about efforts to pass another economic relief package.

Shortly after Russia's invasion, we heard from a Ukrainian neurologist about how she was able to continue her practice. Over the last 6 months, her work has changed significantly.

Chris Harrison's new book is an amusing romance novel — and a ripe excuse for us to ask some lingering questions about the reality show juggernaut that's made him famous.

Alon Ohel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 in a village near Gaza, his family recently held a concert in the hopes that he might hear it.

As newspapers fold around the country, a citizen journalist in a small Alabama town keeps watch over the local government.

The death toll in Gaza is nearing 20,000 people, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, and Israel is coming under intense international pressure — even from its allies — to limit civilian casualties.

Coming off what may be his worst night of the primary season, Marco Rubio's make-or-break moment has arrived.And the Florida senator, a home-state…

What do you get when you combine a champion pitcher with a five-time World Series slugger? Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson duke it out in their new book Sixty Feet, Six Inches.

President Trump is deploying National Guard troops to U.S. cities, erasing "woke" in the military and striking alleged drug boats off Venezuela. The Atlantic's Nancy Youssef discusses what this means.

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.

In the 1980s, Haring's cartoon-like images were everywhere — his figures of dancers, hearts, babies and dogs remain pop culture motifs. A new exhibition celebrates the artist who died in 1990 at 31.

Young people today spend nearly 1,000 fewer hours per year hanging out with friends in person than they did 20 years ago. Some solutions for the loneliness epidemic are coming from unlikely places.

The Navy is hoping that the new Top Gun sequel can help rescue naval aviation from a pilot shortage. This comes nearly four decades after the original film helped to break recruiting records.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with reporter Evan Drellich of The Athletic about the stiff penalties Major League Baseball has imposed on the Houston Astros — who have now fired their manager and GM.

NPR's Melissa Block talks to syndicated columnist Crispin Sartwell about how his son's Google search for Tito Puente yielded hits for both the musician and Yugoslavian leader Marshal Tito. Sartwell pondered the amazing career of this multi-talented combined man. We take it further to explore the musical stylings of Don Ho Chi Minh, Lil' Kim Jong Il, and Ray Charles Taylor.

Sophisticated criminals prey on the poor, luring them with false promises of lucrative jobs before depriving them of their organs. The "kidney mafias" benefit from powerful political connections.

But with an ongoing drought gripping the West, Don McMillan's work is an essential part of providing water to millions of people in Central Arizona.

The asylum-seekers, who were in Matamoros, Mexico, because of the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols policy, said they faced violence and harassment because they identify as LGBTQ.

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads.

For years, the U.S. Army has not been able to meet its annual recruitment goal. The Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth, is rolling out a plan to address that.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to William Jawando, a councilmember in Montgomery County, Md., and activist Laura Mitchell, about the impact of the FDA's approval of over-the-counter sales of Narcan.