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Record-breaking heat hits Texas. Five non-travel related cases of malaria have been reported in Texas and Florida. Over $200 billion in pandemic business loans appear to be fraudulent, watchdog says.

It looked like the 2,000-year-old fresco had a pie painted in the middle of the plate. Archeologists, however, say it probably wasn't pizza, considering tomatoes and mozzarella weren't available yet.

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at New York University, about the Supreme Court's ruling to protect voting rights in federal elections.

The ruling, in a case brought by a Hamburger Mary's restaurant, pauses enforcement of the state's new "Protection of Children" law, which prohibits admitting children to an "adult live performance."

The roots of summer sleep-away camps that revolve around Jewish identity go back to efforts to keep Jewish culture alive after World War II.

A circuit judge rejected a request from three South Florida municipal unions and three union members for a temporary injunction against a new state law preventing government employees from having union dues deducted from their paychecks.

The book tells the story of a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, who fall victim to the rise of the Nazis.

Putin denounced the mercenary group's leader and gave more details about the deal that staved off the mutiny.

The United Nations report says 30 men remained detained at Guantánamo Bay — 19 of whom have never been charged with a crime. The investigator says the infamous site should be shuttered.

“I'm sure there's folks in the agricultural industry that are probably like me scratching their heads wondering ‘what was he thinking?’ Because he didn't veto any of the other conservation funding,” said land broker Dean Saunders.

When oil and gas wells reach the end of their useful lives, fossil fuel companies are supposed to plug them before moving on. But that doesn't always happen. And even when it does, wells can leak harmful gasses, including climate-warming methane.

The award-winning playwright helped bring Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to Broadway. He also talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nominations.

The Supreme Court vacated a Colorado man's stalking conviction.

Influencers visited the company and gave positive reviews of the working conditions, but have been criticized for participating in "fash-washing."

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the most extreme version of the "independent state legislature theory" is expected to bring some stability to the 2024 elections — and invite more lawsuits.

The White House this week unveiled $42 billion in broadband internet funding from the infrastructure act. It's a rare example of mostly conservative rural leaders embracing big government spending.

Several people in the U.S. have come down with malaria. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was the first time in 20 years that malaria has been locally transmitted in the U.S.

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

Flimsy boats, EU policies and an increase in migrants attempting the crossing are some of the factors converging to make this year an especially deadly one.

Large companies have played the role of activists and been one of the biggest countervailing forces against social and religious conservatives on LGBTQ measures. All that is at stake now.

If you want to visit one of the best known springs and manatee watering holes in the state - you're out of luck. At least through November. Three Sisters Springs at Crystal River is closed as workers try to undo decades of damage from too many visitors.

The band's sophomore album, Earthdrawn Skies, connects the dots in wildly diverse music spanning eight centuries.

A Ukrainian general talks about Russia and the counteroffensive. Smoke and heat create unhealthy air in many U.S. areas. Protests in France after police killed a teen during a traffic stop.

There is growing concern in Japan about the dominance of older politicians who lavish welfare spending on older voters, while young politicians are rare. (Story aired on ATC on June 28, 2023.)