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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Charmaine Wilkerson about her new book, Good Dirt.

Manatee mortality rates for 2021 are projected to reach unprecedented levels in Lee County.

Monáe has been releasing albums that mix R&B, pop and rap since 2007 — this is the artist's first since 2018. In recent years, Monáe has appeared in the films Moonlight, Hidden Figures and Glass Onion.

The focus on the court could help energize conservatives in key states. Progressives are fired up, too — immediately after Saturday's announcement, Democrats tied Barrett to a fight for health care.

Many stayed in constant touch with their loved ones during the hostilities. And despite the ceasefire, their fears and feelings about a conflict thousands of miles away are still raw.

Until his arrest in 2004, nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan — the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb — ran a vast smuggling network that sent nuclear materiel to Iran and Libya. In his book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, weapons expert David Albright explains how Khan's network continues to threaten global security.

A top-secret cache of sperm is stored under the Space Needle in Hot White Heist. Bob Odenkirk stars as a suburban dad with a secret identity in Nobody. And it's Criterion Collection's neonoir month.

The Baez family felt they had little choice but to leave their home country of Venezuela after their own personal safety was at risk. The decision to leave everything behind and start from scratch began a journey of both uncertainty and possibility.

Chef Chris Williams from the Houston restaurant Lucille's talks about how he started the restaurant, the nonprofit that grew from it, and his mixed feelings about Juneteenth.

NPR speaks with Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about the latest developments in Afghanistan.

The event comes as a new survey finds that many Americans aren't comfortable mixing religion and politics.

Election officials across the U.S. continue counting ballots Friday. NPR discusses the latest news from key states Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nevada.

A challenge to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's candidacy, citing her words and actions around the U.S. Capitol attack, goes before a state administrative judge Friday. Greene is expected to testify.

The prosecution just about wrapped up its case in Trump's hush money trial. But did they effectively present their case? Scott Detrow and Ximena Bustillo discuss with law professor Jed Shugerman.

Playwright Qui Nguyen's latest work tells the story of how his parents met in an Arkansas refugee camp in 1975.

Steve Inskeep talks to conservative writer Henry Olsen, who argues that President Trump should do more to welcome Mexican immigrants and should commit to this in a speech marking Cinco de Mayo.

Traveling U.S. presidents get a flight restriction with a radius that spans 30 nautical miles. When pilots fly inside that airspace, they risk being intercepted by the Air Force.

The Interior Department is arguing D.C. height limits don't apply to federal projects, bucking a century of precedent. If the panel reviewing Trump's arch agrees, experts say it could change the city.

In conservative Utah, a coalition of cities and towns shows other communities how to bring new renewable energy to the electric grid in a unique way.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with director Margaret Brown and Veda Tunstall about their new documentary, "Descendant." It follows the descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda.

Manufacturing is increasingly being done with robotic power tools that cost tens of thousands of dollars. They're known as CNC or computer-numerical-control machines. A California company is making low-cost CNC machines that will help in the classroom.

President Trump reportedly is said to be considering pardoning himself before he leaves office. NPR discusses whether there is a legal rationale for such a move.

Swedish kids growing up in families that wash their dishes by hand are less likely to develop certain allergies than those in families with dishwashers, a study suggests. But there may be more to it.

Arab countries that were opening relations with Israel are watching its air strikes in Gaza anxiously worrying they'll be seen as abandoning the Palestinians.

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