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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he has raised $1.8 million from merchandise featuring the image of him wearing his mittens on Inauguration Day. The proceeds are going to charitable organizations.

Four years ago, Andrew Joseph III was killed as he tried to cross Interstate 4. He was one of 100 young people ejected from the Florida State Fairgrounds…

A Pew poll shows that Americans' trust in government and its institutions is at a near-historic low. But the government isn't limited to the talking heads on your television — it's also your neighborhood cops, firefighters, school nurses and bus drivers.

Still, it's safe to say that picking up the Tony for best lead actress in a play is not a case of beginner's luck.

César Magaña Linares is a temporary protected status, or TPS, holder from El Salvador. As an activist and law student, he's redefining what it means to be an immigrant, beyond the headlines.

In her highly anticipated second collection, Solmaz Sharif examines the language of rules — exploring conformity and naming losses. Migration, borders, and displacement are constants in these poems.

After getting all 13 kittens into his car, Robert Brantley headed back home. He said almost all the kittens have forever homes lined up and are getting checked out by a veterinarian.

Over 100 years ago, one of the deadliest race riots in American history destroyed the prosperous neighborhood of Greenwood, in Tulsa, Okla. Will victims ever get justice?

In his second poetry collection, The New Testament, Jericho Brown weaves together strains of religious invocations with his uneasy identity as a southern, gay, black man into a beguiling self myth.

In her memoir, Sideways on a Scooter, NPR's Miranda Kennedy reflects on marriage practices and the nature of love in India.

Martha Woodroof talks to first novelists including Chad Harbach (The Art Of Fielding) about how it feels to gut out the unlikely path that takes a book from idea to publication.

Eighteen-year-old Dasani Watkins and her family moved out of Barry Farm in May 2018. She talks about her time there, as the community prepares for redevelopment.

Federal discounts for electric vehicles expire at the end of the month. The deadline has led to a spike in EV sales and whiplash for auto dealers.

Northeast Michigan held one of the shortest fishing seasons ever — 17 minutes. Hundreds of people gathered and raced against the clock in an effort to catch a lake sturgeon, or "dinosaur" fish.

Two writers dig to the bottom of why other people's bad taste in music bothers us so much, and along the way, lay out the new rules for thinking and writing about pop.

When Brenda Sokolowski turned 50, she followed national recommendations and made an appointment for her first screening colonoscopy . “Everybody kind of...

It’s lunchtime at Jacksonville’s Lee High School, and Principal Scott Schneider walks down the school’s math hall. He says Lee has had its share of...

NPR's Pien Huang weighs in on RFK Jr.'s skepticism of conventional public health expertise and his recommendation to remove fluoride from the drinking water.

Zak Ebrahim's father was convicted as a conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. For most of his life, Ebrahim lied to people about who his father was. His new memoir tells his story.

As the West isolates Russian President Vladimir Putin, India has doubled down on buying Russian oil. India's prime minister calls his country's friendship with Moscow "unbreakable."

As part of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, Kirby Metoxen had heard stories about his grandparents being sent to a boarding school in Pennsylvania, designed to strip Native children of their culture.

It may have been a while since you heard the 1970s hit. "Long Long Time" was used three times in The Last of Us episode. An hour after the show aired, Spotify reported streams increased by 4,900%.

Police wonder if the roughly 4-pound metallic object might have come from a meteor shower made up of debris from Halley's Comet. Homeowners want an astrophysicist to take a closer look at the object.

The federal government has now delayed indefinitely a plan to detonate a huge bomb in the Nevada desert. A mushroom cloud was likely to result from the detonation of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in an underground tunnel. Producer Scott Carrier traveled to several towns around the Nevada test site to find out what people who live nearby think of the plan.

Following pressure from animal advocates, a giraffe named Benito is being transferred from a shabby park in the border city of Ciudad Juarez to a more spacious wildlife park in southern Mexico.