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The Writers Guild of America seems poised to go on strike next week, when their current contract with The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires.

In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a number of states have dealt with the issue of abortion access in their legislatures. This week was particularly eventful.

Syrians who say they've been tortured worry that their claims will fall by the wayside as countries start to re-open ties with the government.

New Mexico is at the heart of a fight over abortion rights that's pitting local anti-abortion ordinances against state officials who support abortion rights.

Historians in India have expressed outrage over changes in 12th grade textbooks. Critics see this as an attempt to appropriate the government's pro-Hindu agenda.

The second week of E. Jean Carroll's trial against former President Donald Trump starts Monday. The former columnist says he raped her in the 1990s, then called her a liar when she went public.

From watching the sun rise — yeah, it's a cliche but it works! — to dancing to techno music to doing good for others to just plain smiling, readers share what gives them optimism in times of trouble.

U.S. murder clearance or solve rates have hit an all-time low. Experts say mutual mistrust between police and some communities is creating a vicious cycle where unsolved killings breed more mistrust.

Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature. Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, is commemorating the 30th anniversary of her win.

King Charles III, keen to show that he can be a unifying figure, will be crowned in a ceremony that will for the first time include faiths other than the Church of England.

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

On their new record 72 Seasons, Metallica proves they're still making inspired music for hardcore fans. For a metal band with many of its members approaching 60, that's no small feat.

Engineers have bought the spacecraft's interstellar mission more time by using backup power from a safety mechanism. It means NASA no longer has to shut down one of its five scientific instruments.

A year ago, the Lightning rallied from 2-1 and 3-2 series deficits to eliminate the Maple Leafs from the opening round in seven games.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the NBA playoffs and a long delayed debut in Major League Baseball.

We look at what North Carolina Supreme Court's reversal on a GOP voting map means for gerrymandering cases in other states, as well as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's win on the debt ceiling bill.

Pope Francis says women will be allowed to vote on a Vatican panel that had been exclusively male. NPR's Scott Simon asks Kate McElwee of the Women's Ordination Conference about it.

In Idaho, it's not unusual to see ranchers moving a bleating herd of sheep up to higher elevation at this time of year. But the sight of 2,500 trotting across a highway brought a crowd of onlookers.

U.S. murder clearance or solve rates have hit an all-time low. Experts say mutual mistrust between police and some communities is creating a vicious cycle where unsolved killings breed more mistrust.

Families that live in cities with big homeless populations face a difficult conversation: how to talk to their kids about people they see sleeping on the streets.

An American team is in Europe this week for a medieval combat competition. They dress up in period costumes and fight with dulled weapons.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and Johns Hopkins University financial history professor, Kathleen Day, on the history of the debt ceiling.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history in the Negro Leagues.

Amid the "woke" controversy, Freedom schools aim to keep teaching African American history.

In recent years, cities and counties, in Orange, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, have passed tenant “bill of rights” that go beyond a state law known as the Florida Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.