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When 27-year-old Kamaiu Johnson tees off in the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, it'll mark the culmination of an improbable journey.

A small community-focused arts and culture center in San Francisco's Chinatown is reeling from the combined effects of being dropped, ghosted and confused by three major federal funding bodies.

The surprise early exit of the Florida House from the 2015 regular session likely means that most of a legislative package dear to Senate President Andy...

A judge will hear arguments this month in a case that could ultimately test whether a privacy clause in the Florida Constitution will protect abortion rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law and dismisses a Justice Department case against the law. Here are excerpts from Friday's opinion.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Angela Stent, professor emeritus at Georgetown University, about what motivates Russian President Vladimir Putin as talks to end the war in Ukraine continue.

Hosts from NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about an exoplanet with pink, salty clouds, the surprising social structure of ancient human relatives and the origins of laughter.

With no help from the federal government, states are trying to regulate recreational marijuana. California's Department of Cannabis Control works to keep contaminants out of joints, vapes and edibles.

The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns about how intertwined politics and religion had become. Carter died on Dec. 29 at age 100.

Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project.

Near the start of the school year, the University of South Florida held a volunteer fair in the Marshall Student Center on the Tampa campus.While dozens…

Forget food aid, cows and job training. An unprecedented 12-year experiment in Kenya tests the power of cash.

Many consider the move punishment for the company's public opposition to a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and lessons deemed not age appropriate.

Russia's giant air force hasn't done it much good in Ukraine. The Senate is to vote on a bill codifying Roe V. Wade into law. Firefighters in New Mexico struggle to contain a wildfire.

Mark Harris, the lead strategist for the pro-Haley Super PAC Stand for America, discusses Nikki Haley's next steps — following her second-place finish in the New Hampshire GOP primary.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Short Wave hosts Regina Barber and Geoff Brumfiel about a copper-age "queen," a 500-million-year-old sea squirt, and a way to help mosquitoes fight malaria.

Officials say Kyiv is liberated after Ukrainian forces staved off Russian attacks. Here's a look at what kind of outside help they got and the strategies they deployed.

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the week in sports news.

It once was the largest slave port in America. Its state was the first Civil War site. And it's a city that started a reparations effort, then it stopped, and now it's started again.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with sportswriter Armen Keteyian about his new book, "The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football's Era of Chaos."

Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.

America grows so many apples that the government ends up buying large amounts because there's not enough demand from consumers and processors. The imbalance is driving some producers out of business.

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but never seen.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with professor Joshua Landis, who directs the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, about how the fall of the Assad regime could change global dynamics.

Vernon Jackson thought his telecommunications invention would bring him wealth and success. But his dealings with a corrupt congressman eventually landed him in prison. He has since emerged from prison, reinvented as a man of faith.