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The Windy City has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city. A study estimates that more than two-thirds of children there are exposed to lead in their home tap water.

This year's short list features novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as five first-time nominees for nonfiction, including journalists Omar El Akkad and Julia Ioffe.

Threats against Jews, Arabs and Muslims have risen since the Israel-Hamas war started. DOJ says it's protect those communities, but Arab and Muslim groups say their voices aren't being heard.

President Biden is trying to flip the script to blame Republicans for border issues. Will voters buy it?

NPR's Noel King talks to Elliot Spagat of The Associated Press, who was one of the few journalists allowed into a Texas facility housing migrants, about what he saw.

President Obama held a brief but wide-ranging news conference Thursday. He began with a brief statement criticizing Senate Republicans for blocking his nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He also responded to questions talked about Iran, Plan B, a proposed extension of unemployment insurance benefits and Osama bin Laden.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Gina Clayton-Johnson of the Essie Justice Group about opposition to the Justice in Policing Act moving through Congress, and her proposed replacement: the BREATHE Act.

Dozens of notable jazz musicians died this year, many from COVID-19. Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead remembers some of the legends lost, including Bucky Pizzarelli, Ellis Marsalis and Jimmy Heath.

More Republicans registered in counties across the Tampa Bay region cast ballots than their Democratic counterparts, according to a WUSF analysis of 2024 election data.

Florida Department of Transportation will eventually distribute $256 million of the collected tax revenue by entering into agreements with six recipients.

In the new documentary "Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," filmmaker Raoul Peck dives into how Orwell's experiences informed his ideas and his writing.

Gottlieb, who died June 14 at 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carré and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. We listen back to an interview with Gottlieb from just a few months ago.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master, Will Shortz, and CPR listener Sam McDowell of Boulder, Colorado.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPBS listener Tony Mangina of San Diego, California, along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

As the U.S. manages the coronavirus, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to three NPR correspondents in some hard-hit countries: China, South Korea and Italy, to ask what lessons the U.S. should learn.

An investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project found that many states don't keep track of how many inmates are released directly from solitary confinement without any transition or supervision.

NPR's David Greene talks to Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi about the increasing tensions with the U.S. NPR's Peter Kenyon weighs in on the conversation.

The Biden Administration has told colleges they risk losing federal funding if they don't take aggressive steps to curb attacks on Jewish students, and harassment of pro-Palestinian students.

People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.

With vaccine mandates in place all over the country, workers opposed to the shots are requesting religious exemptions, but federal law puts employers in a strong position when weighing the requests.

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the very first time.

Recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom were released earlier in 2023.

In 2009, the singer-songwriter says she asked herself the question, "Who am I?" The answer led her to make plans to retire. Four years later, she's re-emerged with a new album called SongVersation, as well as a new sense of who she is as an artist.

Fernando Perez, the 26-year-old outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, has written an essay in the September issue of Poetry Magazine about the firm place poetry holds in his life. Perez says poetry and baseball occupy different realms of his life.

Commentator Elizabeth Gilbert, who is the author of the new book Eat, Pray, Love, recalls a trip to Naples, Italy that helped restore her love of pleasure after a painful divorce.