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At least one person has died. Authorities said rescuers helped evacuate at least 35 people who were trapped inside the building near Miami.

How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?

Republicans were angered after they agreed to compromise on an infrastructure plan with the White House, then President Biden said he'd only sign it along with a larger Democratic bill.

Dozens of people are feared dead following Thursday's collapse of a 12-story condo building in Surfside, Fla. Rescue crews are still searching for survivors who might be trapped in the rubble.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with a disaster management expert, Robert Jensen, about the complexities of rescue and recovery after the collapse of a highrise in Surfside, Florida.

In Brownsville, Texas, two Mexican restaurants are pushing the envelope of what a corn tortilla can envelop, and an award-winning cafe cooks barbacoa the old-fashioned way.

The U.S. Justice Department has sued the state of Georgia over its new voting law, saying that the controversial measure is intended to restrict ballot access to Black voters.

The Minneapolis community reacts to the sentencing of former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

A panel of lawyers from around the world proposes to make ecocide a crime that can be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court just like genocide and war crimes.

A lot of young queer people in Vietnam are comfortably out with everyone except their own parents. Photographer Kai Nguyen sets out to discover the nuances of those family relationships.

Eight people were pulled out of the rubble, and one victim passed away at the hospital, officials said on Sunday. Another 150 people remain missing.

Nearly three years before an oceanfront building collapsed near Miami, an engineering firm estimated the building needed more than $9 million in major repairs.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology was given the authority to investigate building collapses after the attacks of 9/11. Now, six researchers are in Surfside gathering information about Thursday's partial building collapse.

New rules take effect today, completing an overhaul of the once-troubled federal TEACH Grant program that makes it easier for teachers to pay for college.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Cosby's due process rights were violated when he was charged for a 2004 assault after prosecutors told him they wouldn't bring criminal charges against him.

UNC-Chapel Hill's board of trustees will vote on the tenure of writer and professor Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her work on the 1619 Project stirred opposition, like the donor after whom the school is named.

Andrew Card served as White House Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush administration, working alongside Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He remembers his former colleague with NPR's Ari Shapiro.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Victoria Valentino, one of the women who says Bill Cosby sexual assaulted her, about his conviction being overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

As recently as last month, Surfside, Fla., officials were ordering changes at Champlain Towers South. But the demands never focused on the building's fundamental soundness.

In Pipe Dreams, Chelsea Wald examines the health issues related to sanitation and looks at global efforts to manage human waste, including turning it into fuel and fertilizer.

Fiallo was known as the "mother of the telenovela," writing hugely popular stories that were packed with torrid love affairs, amnesia, murders, and more.

With the changes, "we don't have to lie to get our passports. We can just be ourselves," said Dana Zzyym, an intersex person who has fought for more gender options on U.S. passports.

Climate activists are worried President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure deal won't do enough to protect the planet. He is selling the deal without major climate goals.

The recording-breaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest are causing trouble in agriculture. Farm workers are suffering from record heat, and the crops are being harmed as well.

The legislation also calls for the removal of a bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the infamous Dred Scott decision that declared Black Americans weren't U.S. citizens.