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Weekend Edition guest host Don Gonyea talks to Leslie Harris, associate professor of history at Emory University, about the controversy triggered by Emory President James Wagner's praise for the "three-fifths compromise" of the U.S. Constitution. The notorious measure decreed that slaves were three-fifths of a person.

The Pinellas County Commission vote culminated an arduous two-year journey that most recently began after St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch said he wanted to start over with the plan to redevelop the Historic Gas Plant District.

President Trump got rid of a decades-old policy that prevented agents from arresting migrants without legal status in sensitive places, such as schools. Most districts are drawing a line in the sand.

The National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of biomedical research in the U.S., could face big changes under the new Trump administration, some fueled by pandemic-era criticisms of the agency.

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump's executive order.

The next installment of the "My Unsung Hero" series comes from a new mom who remembers a kind stranger on a flight from Nebraska to Chicago.

The AP-NORC survey of 1,158 adults shows most don't think the government is overspending on the programs Republicans in Congress have focused on cutting.

Gaetz said he won't seek his seat after he stepped down when president-elect Donald Trump nominated him for attorney general. Gaetz later withdrew from consideration.

Heather Lefebvre just graduated with top honors from Brandeis University with a degree in English and creative writing. She's leaving school with a diploma in her hand and a mountain of debt. And that has her worried about her academic choices.

Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS."

A rash of nighttime drone sightings continues in New Jersey and elsewhere. It's worrying people as most officials say there's no reason for concern.

Sunscreen is the best way to protect ourselves against skin cancer. But doctors are concerned by a backlash against sunscreen that is spreading on social media.

Downtown Phoenix businesses sued the city over a sprawling homeless encampment. The city's solution appears successful two years later, but funding for it is set to run out.

Two years after residents voted to reintroduce wolves in Colorado, ranchers there say too many of their cows are being killed. The state is now hiring people on horseback to help.

The Forest Service says it's fully staffed with seasonal firefighters going into summer but there are still questions about whether the government is prepared if major wildfires get out of hand.

A weeklong hearing to establish whether the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk can be taken to full trial ended today. There has been dramatic testimony.

A massive tunnel project that would link New York and New Jersey could run out of money by the end of the week. Developers are suing the Trump administration in an effort go get the funding flowing.

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad starred in The Book of Mormon when it made its Broadway debut. In The Boroughs, Peters plays a member of a retirement community that's plagued by mysterious forces.

Longtime CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller has died at age 73. He was known by colleagues for his encyclopedic knowledge of the White House.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lael Brainard, director of the National Economic Council, about the latest Consumer Price Index report and how it might shape Americans' views on the economy.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to KQED's Sukey Lewis, host of the new podcast On Our Watch, about a reporting project to collect and analyze previously secret police internal affairs files.

In 2014, an anonymous whistleblower leaked a copy of a letter that allegedly revealed an Islamist plan to take over schools in one English city. A new podcast tells the story behind the fake document.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Eric Garcetti about a new jobs program aimed at doubling the employment of Latinos — more than half the city's population — in the film industry there.

Pope Leo's Black family roots inspired journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, became white and didn't return. She describes her journey to reunite her family.