Search results for

Nicole Ogburn no longer tells her students that she promises they are safe. Instead, she has taken to saying: "We're safer than we've ever been."

The podcast The Last Ride examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable.

As California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra fought Trump-era restrictions on reproductive health. If confirmed, he'll navigate an even more difficult legal and political landscape.

Gold prices are soaring. Cue the gold rush, and with it, more challenges for Brazil and efforts to protect the world's largest tropical forest, write Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison kept notes as lead prosecutor in the state's case against Derek Chauvin. He's sharing them in a new book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence.

Russia has claimed victory in the invasion's longest battle, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the fight for Bakhmut was not over. "We are not throwing people (away) to die," he said.

As Canada and parts of the U.S. confront declines in air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, NPR reporters in Asia, Latin America and Africa share their experiences.

An economics professor at Middlebury College and her undergrad research assistants have been tracking access to abortion care since 2009. These maps show the dramatic changes in the past decade.

The recent, abrupt shortage of critical cancer drugs is forcing doctors to ration essential medications. It highlights a broken business model in generic drugs.

The hotly-anticipated, pandemic-delayed sequel to 2013's fungal apocalypse game The Last of Us packs all the visual and emotional wallop of the first — and more.

In sweeping indictments, the Justice Department targeted two dozen operatives in the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa cartel. But many drug policy experts say this won't slow fentanyl deaths.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jon Ward, Yahoo News chief national correspondent, about his memoir: Testimony, which details his upbringing in, and break from, an influential evangelical church.

The Arctic island has a wealth of rare earth resources that the U.S. has labeled as essential to national defense.

The island is facing one of its worst dry spells in a century, and both the agricultural and high-tech sectors are competing for scarce water resources.

The diverse Southeast Asian country has more than 17,000 islands, a median age of 29 and an expansive fare influenced by many cultures. And the tech-savvy population is reaching out to the world.

"I can make jokes," Laura Welliver says, "because I've already had my good, long cry."

There's a new target in the culture wars: Banks and other financial companies conservatives slam as “woke."

Smart guns have mainly been the stuff of movies. In the real world, technological and political challenges have meant the high-tech devices haven't become a reality. That may be about to change.

Researchers are developing a technology that could draw carbon dioxide directly out of the air. It's very expensive now, but it works, and one company is already trying to identify a market for all that captured greenhouse gas.

The third Guardians film assumes a strangely somber tone and a plot that features more cruelty to animals and children than audiences have any reason to expect from a wacky space yarn.

Across the country, schools are reporting rising cafeteria debt, and fewer kids are enrolling in their free and reduced price programs. Many states are moving to make meals free for all kids again.

A Jean-Philippe Rameau opera, left unfinished at time of his death and recently completed by a musicologist, gets its premiere 280 years later, with extravagant costumes.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Atlantic writer Jennifer Senior about grief.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Dallet about the recent race for a seat on that court and why people should pay more attention to state shadow dockets.

The UAW has a new president, Shawn Fain, who is promising a return to aggressive political activity by the union, along with a tougher approach with auto companies.