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More than a third of the Latino households surveyed by the Pew Research Center said they'd used something other than a traditional mortgage. Alternative financing can come with high costs and risks.

The votes are still being counted but if the party wins, it would mark a major milestone that could pave the way for Northern Ireland to leave the U.K. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to reporter Willem Marx.

Commentator John Ridley wraps up the Democratic National Convention. In the process he learns that reporting the news and getting newsmakers to take you seriously isn't easy.

Lily Thorpe, a 10-year-old from Grand Junction, Colo., is far more politically involved than most adults. She's started her own political action commitee. NPR's Jeff Brady reports.

In the second of a two-part report marking the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, we profile the Gates of the Arctic National Park, north of the Arctic Circle in the Brooks Range of Alaska.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving says the fight over John Kerry's war record isn't surprising given the ingredients involved: Vietnam and politics.

The Irish nationalist party hailed a "new era" as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time.

Afghan officials continue to gather ballot boxes spread throughout the country from Saturday's presidential vote. Apart from President Hamid Karzai, all candidates in the country's election have declared the process illegitimate. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea says that as President Bush moves up in the polls, his campaign seems confident enough to accept a risky "town hall" debate format.

Hear the two-hour memorial service for soul music pioneer Ray Charles, who died Thursday, June 10, at 73. Participants include Clint Eastwood, B.B. King, Willie Nelson and Stevie Wonder.

Most photos from Iraqi prisons revealed in the media in recent weeks show disturbing evidence of detainee abuse. But from Camp Bucca, Maj. Stacy Garrity returns with images of a friendship between American solders and Iraqi detainees. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on the woman known as "the angel of the desert."

NPR's Sarah McCammon and Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges talk with Mary Louise Kelly about what overturning Roe could mean for trigger bans — and more widely, marginalized people across the U.S.

Daniel Duron changed his life by earning his bachelor's degree behind bars. His path will be more available next year, when people in federal and state prisons will once again qualify for Pell grants.

Russia appears on the cusp of capturing Sievierodonetsk — a key Ukrainian city in the eastern part of the country. It's a city that's been at the center of the fighting for weeks.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political campaign this week launched a questionnaire designed to gauge how closely local school board candidates align with the Republican leader’s educational priorities.

The recently elected Australian prime minister declined to say whether he had spoken to U.S. President Joe Biden about the case.

After years of legislative battles about the issue, Gov. Ron DeSantis faces a decision about whether to approve revamping the state’s alimony laws.

There are reports of an attack in the Ethiopia's Oromia region leading to scores of deaths. Yet details of what happened are hard to verify.

NPR staff members read the Emancipation Proclamation to celebrate Juneteenth.

COVID-19 vaccines are finally rolling out for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.

The town of Orick sits just steps away from Redwood National Park. It has prime real estate for recreation and tourism, so why are its motels and restaurants shuttered and its residents impoverished?

Juneteenth celebrates the day slavery ended in Texas, June 19, 1865. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed studies the early American republic and the legacy of slavery. Originally broadcast May 25, 2021.

AHCA, which runs most of the Medicaid program, published a proposed rule and set a July 8 hearing on the issue. National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups have vowed to fight the proposal.

Food prices are skyrocketing for lots of reasons, but corn and soybean crops play an outsized role. Those two touch most of the food Americans eat — and now cost double what they did two years ago.

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer.