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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana about whether he will vote to convict ex-President Donald Trump on the single charge of "incitement of insurrection."

NPR takes a look at Maxwell Alejandro Frost, the first Gen Z member elected to Congress.

Sinclair grew up in a devout Rasta family in Jamaica. When she cut her dreadlocks at age 19, she became "a ghost" to her father. Her memoir is How to Say Babylon. Originally broadcast Oct. 4, 2023.

Our friends at the WNYC podcast New Tech City recently challenged you to put down the smartphone to see what sort of brilliance beckoned. We check in on the results.

The U.S. is changing the way food aid is distributed to starving children around the world. It is now using aid as a diplomatic tool as nutrition bars pile up in U.S. factories.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Karla Mercado Dorado, a 19-year-old DACA applicant, about her reaction to a federal judge's ruling against the program.

A bruising budget battle that divided Republicans in the Florida Legislature is over for now, but the truce is likely only to last a few months....

White House actions to pause refugee resettlement and funds to NGOs have stranded hundreds of organizations and thousands of refugees legally on U.S. soil.

Dale Earnhardt's death on the final lap of the Daytona 500 four years ago broke the hearts of millions of NASCAR fans. His memory lingers in homes and racetracks across the country. Earnhardt's famous #3 logo is as prevalent as ever.

We examine the role of television networks that the media plays in preserving our democracy.

Global deaths from malaria have dropped sharply in the past decade, thanks in part to powerful drugs called artemisinins. But on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, doctors are starting to see cracks in artemisinin's armor. The medicine is working more slowly, and sometimes not at all.

The new film is based on the bestselling memoir by Dana Canedy. She tells NPR's Michel Martin about the film's release and the story of love and devotion at the center of it.

Rocket scientist and YouTube star, Destin Sandlin, got to interview President Obama. NPR's Rachel Martin asks Sandlin about what the two spoke about. Space, of course!

We’re a little over a month from the legislative session which begins March 7th. WMFE's Talia Blake caught up with Sadaf Knight, CEO of Florida Policy Institute, to talk about the state budget, what bills she’s watching this session, and more.

Lawmakers released the budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year on Tuesday and prepared to pass it Friday as they end the annual legislative session.

Trial starts Monday in Georgia in a killing that sparked racial justice protests. Three white men are accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man shot while jogging down a residential street.

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day five years ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

After a long day of marching and chanting, most protesters in the tent camp known as Romneyville are trying to get some sleep."We have the constant…

Activists from the same group have glued themselves to other paintings at U.K. art galleries in recent days, calling on the government to end all new oil and gas licenses.

Engineers trying to get the flood water out of New Orleans face many challenges in their task. Communication is a major problem. So is transportation. The Army Corps of Engineers needs to build crude roads just to get workers to the breached sections of the levee system.

One of Michael Jackson's close friends and mentors was record producer Quincy Jones. In a 2008 interview with Michele Norris, Jones reflected on his relationship with the king of pop.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis about the increase in the number of migrants crossing the border into Lithuania from Belarus.

The staff at Trust Women, a Kansas clinic, is seeing an influx of people from other states with limited or no access to abortion services. That could get worse if the state outlaws abortion.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Carmelo Crisanto, executive director of the Human Rights Violations Victims' Memorial Commission, about racing to archive human rights abuses in the Philippines.

The nation has corrected an oversight three quarters of a century old, awarding the 30th Infantry Division a Presidential Unit Citation for holding off a German counterattack.