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In southwest Virginia, Galax was once a traditional small-town mountain community. It now has one of the fastest-growing Hispanic populations in the state.

“Life, uh, finds a way,” as Dr. Ian Malcolm said in Jurassic Park. It certainly did between February and April as populations were forced to self...

In this week's Barbershop, NPR's Michel Martin talks about upcoming offerings in summer entertainment with humor writer Luvvie Ajayi, journalist Kara Brown of Jezebel and NPR's Eric Deggans.

In the new memoir The Soundtrack of My Life, the legendary record producer and industry executive shares stories from his more than four-decade career.

Millions of people rely on city parks to recharge, cool off and connect. But climate change is threatening the very spaces that help us cope with the stresses of living on a hotter planet.

Manager editor of The Root Danielle Belton, Republican strategist Gayle Trotter, and Mona Charen of National Review discuss the leaked video of Donald Trump and the reaction from Republicans.

Violent crime is up across the country — and voters are fed up. But why is it so difficult to find solutions?

An examination of billing policies and practices at more than 500 hospitals across the country shows widespread reliance on aggressive collection tactics.

This year is expected to set a record for the number of book bans by public school libraries, so many people are finding creative ways to make banned books available to young readers outside schools.

Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.

Recently in the online magazine Salon, journalist Helen Benedict chronicled allegations of sexual abuse by female members of the U.S. military in Iraq. Benedict discusses her findings, and Spc. Mickiela Montoya, who served in the National Guard in Iraq, describes her experience.

The CDC will revise its guidelines for school reopening after Trump's criticism. The Supreme Court will rule on Trump's tax records. And, how Sanders and Biden want to unify Democrats.

We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.

David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, mixes fantasy and literary fiction in a decades-spanning saga of ordinary people who get caught up in a war between two factions of ancient near-immortals.

Stern says he's not the raunchy shock jock he once was. "If I hadn't grown and evolved and changed ... I don't know that I could still be on the radio." His new book is Howard Stern Comes Again.

Kastellorizo has become a pawn in a dispute between Greece and Turkey over maritime borders and offshore resources. But as the governments' standoff continues, islanders speak of peace and harmony.

Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby.

On Tuesday night, finalists for the National Book Awards read from their nominated works at The New School in New York City. The National Book Foundation will announce the winners Wednesday night.

Nursing aides feel abandoned as they grapple with mental and physical troubles that stem from their work during the COVID outbreak.

An excerpt from KCRW's "The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast" on whether eating chicken or fish is ultimately better for the environment.

Costa Farms decided to open its doors to defend its treatment of the 2,760 employees who led the charge to defeat a landmark county proposal intended to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat — a campaign the company acknowledges got it branded as “the bad guys.”

The race to win the quickly approaching Iowa caucuses ran through a CNN debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in which the front-runner was again absent and only two candidates made the debate cut: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

Democratic presidential ticket's debut tour stopped in Michigan. Friday marks ten years since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The U.S. had a good showing in track and field on Thursday.

The discovery raises questions about whether Rep. Bruce Hadley Antone was legally eligible to hold office.

Ramadan starts Monday and still no cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. There's been no let-up in violence in Haiti's capital. Oppenheimer did well at the Oscars, winning seven golden statuettes.