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On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in a hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy, a presidential hopeful who was memorialized as a liberal icon, was complicated and contradictory.

The jury is deliberating Derek Chauvin's fate. We break down one of the most audacious cyber hacks in recent memory. And, a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

President Biden is having a summit to discuss violence and hate in the country. Some voters say he's come up short on his pledge to try to heal the "soul of the nation."

Orthodox Rabbi Joseph Telushkin says his belief in some form of life after death flows from the persistence of injustice on earth. If there were no afterlife, he says, "it would mean that Adolf Hitler and Anne Frank had the same fate."

Eli Conley is a singer-songwriter who specializes in helping trans people on testosterone re-learn how to sing as their voices change.

To mark 10 years since Hurricane Katrina, NPR's Scott Simon checks back in with New Orleans resident Randy Adams who he first spoke with right after the hurricane hit.

Record turnout, a president who won't accept the outcome and likely divided government. Beating President Trump may turn out to be easier than governing for President-elect Biden.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to human rights attorney Sawsan Zaher about how Palestinian and Arab Israelis are reacting to the conservative government's proposed judicial overhaul.

Nearly two-thirds of Major League Baseball teams have had some form of mascot race. It all began with the Milwaukee Brewers' Racing Sausages in the early 1990s.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Elif Shafak about her book: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. The novel is shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Litt, former general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, about the lead-up to Joseph Maguire's testimony.

Robert Siegel talks to our regular political commentators — " E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of the New York Times — about Super Tuesday, Israel and Iran.

Police say rape cases are tough because a victim's memory is often spotty. The ways trauma affects the brain is helping police in rape and sexual assault cases.

NPR's Noel King talks to Carlos Favela, executive vice president of the El Paso Border Patrol Union, about the reduction of apprehensions along the border and recent criticism of some agents' actions.

The band, which includes its founding lead singer, plays the BayCare Sound Sunday at 6 p.m.

Dr. Leana Wen, a physician and former Baltimore Health Commissioner, discusses what Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month means to her.

It's not just oil and gas that are affected by the Iran war. All sorts of shortages and price spikes are starting to pop up that stand to affect people's daily lives.

Young black Democrats in South Carolina are increasingly interested in Bernie Sanders' message, but older voters, at least for now, are leaning toward Hillary Clinton.

In a southern Kazakh city, health-care workers are standing trial on charges of negligence. At least 95 infants tested positive for HIV after treatment at local children's hospitals. The case has exposed corruption in the country's medical system.

Health insurers are trying to spark a price war by refusing to pay for some brand-name medications unless they get a big discount. This forces some people to change their prescriptions.

Lightning strikes may have supplied a key ingredient that allowed life to emerge on early Earth, according to a new study of "fossilized" lightning.

The Toronto Blue Jays-turned-Red Sox player is due to make Major League Baseball history on Monday when the two teams finish a June game interrupted by rain.

The Ukrainian nuclear power plant that Russia attacked and took over remains occupied by Russian troops. There are fears the Russians could set its sights on Ukraine's remaining nuclear power plants.

Drew Barrymore dropped out of hosting the program live after Hollywood writers went on strike. Almost a week in, how has the strike affected what the viewing public sees on TV?

Why all the adulatory attention, critics ask, for Jonathan Franzen's latest domestic drama about marriage and family? Even though Franzen gets more praise for doing what many fine female writers do "backwards and in heels," critic Maureen Corrigan says Freedom has earned its high praise.