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Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.

Milton has grown quickly and is forecast to make landfall in Florida midweek. The state could see its largest evacuation orders since 2017.

California is making the nation's most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing and food for some of the state's sickest and most vulnerable residents.

This year, a cast of progressive experimentalists, such as Arca, Juliana Huxtable and Elysia Crampton, among others, tackled matters of identity with an imaginative and expansive focus.

There's a good chance that this Nov. 5th, President Biden will again face Donald Trump. What might a second term for either candidate mean for the country?

Palestinian-American student Hisham Awartani was shot while visiting family in Vermont over Thanksgiving break. WNYC's Notes From America follows his return to student life at Brown University.

Ithaca, N.Y., wants to eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2030 — 20 years faster than the rest of the country. But even in this liberal city meeting climate targets is harder than expected.

State lawmakers across the U.S. concerned about the integrity of elections ahead of the 2024 presidential vote are proposing and enacting an unprecedented number of laws to restrict — and, in some cases, expand — voting rights and ballot access.

NPR flew along as the Jordanian air force dropped pallets of boxes of much-needed aid attached to parachutes into the Gaza Strip.

Moldovans will vote for a new president and on a constitutional amendment regarding its path to the EU. Both votes will take place amid accusations of Russian meddling, vote buying and disinformation.

Amid the members' many high-profile pursuits, including collaborations with Nick Cave and Cat Power, the Australian trio returns to the ecstatic and deafening music of Dirty Three.

The sale of airport land has to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, which blocked the deal in April, citing numerous problems.

Over the past few decades, psychologists have begun to understand how parents across many cultures teach their children to build deep, fulfilling relationships with their siblings.

As more local young adults are being diagnosed with early onset cancers, such as colorectal, scientists are searching for answers as to why it's happening.

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.

NPR's Kelly McEvers and Tom Dreisbach go to Los Angeles' Skid Row to investigate the tensions between the people who live there and the police.

Vice President Harris needs to win back Michigan voters President Biden looked poised to lose. Donald Trump’s appeal remains strong here, but he’s not without his own struggles.

For decades, largescale engineering projects for development and agriculture drained and partitioned south Florida's Everglades, a vast wetlands landscape home to endangered and threatened species and a vital source of drinking water for millions of Floridians. A plan approved by Congress in 2000 has aimed to undo some of the damages, but development, water quality and climate change are ongoing challenges.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Matt Damon about starring as racing driver and car designer Carroll Shelby in the new movie, Ford v Ferrari.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built his fortune and reputation on disparaging the government scientists and institutions he's now in line to lead as HHS secretary.

HCA Florida’s two freestanding emergency rooms – one of them opens Monday – are part of a wave of new facilities.

Unlike the Appalachian Trail, which sits entirely on federal land, the Florida Trail crosses through “A melting pot of lands” managed by state agencies, water management districts and private owners.

U.S.-funded international networks reach more than 420 million people in more than 100 countries each week. Some network leaders fear that Kari Lake intends to cancel all funding for them.

With continuous glucose monitors, students with Type 1 diabetes no longer have to visit the school nurse for a finger prick. But some parents say it falls to them to keep an eye on blood sugar levels from home or work.