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When Hmong hill tribesmen fled their native Laos after the Vietnam War, many ended up in neighboring Thailand, where they have lived in poverty for decades. Last December, some 15,000 of these stateless citizens were offered citizenship in the United States. The first of the Hmong refugees are arriving at various destinations in the United States this week. Doualy Xaykaothao traveled to the refugee camp near Tham Krabock temple in central Thailand to report on preparations for their departure.

The best ideas don't always come from the loudest person in the room. Author Susan Cain urges us to listen to those who embrace quiet as a force for innovation.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with COP26 president Alok Sharma about promises and agreements made at the recent climate summit in Glasgow and what more needs to be done.

The meeting at the G20 in Indonesia will be their first in person since President Biden took office. Whether they can find common ground is a key question, and reflects the current state of relations.

The Customs and Border Protection agency says it is doing its best to reduce impact to the environment and tribal citizens. Conservationists and Native Tribes in the area are not appeased.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads to Asia for a 4-day visit to Japan, South Korea and China. The trip comes at a tense time in the region as North Korea test fires missiles and the U.S. installs an anti-missile defense system in South Korea.

Evening Masterworks: Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G

How did 15,000 Haitian migrants, over a five-day span, reach the U.S.-Mexico border last month unimpeded? The answer involves, crime, law enforcement and politics.

The Biden administration is finally wrapping up its review of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. It will keep those tariffs, and add more on things like electric vehicles.

B360 is a STEM program in Baltimore that uses dirt bikes to get kids interested in engineering while also recruiting riders as instructors and diverting them from the justice system.

Because of the Omicron surge, organizers canceled in-person events in Park City, Utah, and the event is now all virtual. The event runs for two weeks.

The mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota recently visited Laotian Hmong refugees who are living illegally on the grounds of a famous Buddhist temple in Thailand. His visit precedes the opening of a U.S. refugee resettlement program for the Hmong who are unable to return to Laos and unwelcome in Thailand. Doualy Xaykaothao reports.

For the first time in 15 years, voters have flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court to liberal control. Justices are likely to overturn the state's abortion ban and could throw out GOP drawn voting maps.

It's tough getting 12 musicians to agree on anything. But the members of the Richmond, Va. ensemble are firm in the desire to represent their own city in their music.

The remnants of what appears to have been an eighteenth-century ship have been unearthed by workers excavating ground zero in New York.

Trumpeter Jon Hassell began to create what he dubbed "Fourth World" music in the 1970s. He defines it as "a unified primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques."

Composer Tan Dun grew up in Mao's China. As a boy, he saw his parents sent away for so-called "re-education." He describes his musical coming of age under China's Cultural Revolution.

Ten years ago, the way we see the universe changed. A December, 1993, repair mission by U.S. space shuttle astronauts gave badly-needed "eyeglasses" to the Hubble Space Telescope. Since then, the instrument has taken thousands of breathtaking images that have been beamed back to Earth.

Her music has been sung at marches and political rallies, heard in churches and on chain restaurant jukeboxes. Everything popular music can be is there in the songs of Aretha Franklin.

An atmospheric river is a relatively narrow channel of wind, hence the "river," that transports water vapor from the tropics to the West Coast, where it's producing rain and heavy winds.

Scientists need to track the history of sea temperatures precisely to model climate change. A newly discovered clue in measurements taken by sailors in the 1930s could have far-reaching implications.

Over the past 30 years, the growing divide between rich and poor has become an American crisis, Timothy Noah writes in his latest book. The Great Divergence is part descriptive, laying out shifting economic trends, and part prescriptive, offering several solutions to help ease the crisis.

When you think of India, you might think of heat and humidity before snow. But India is home to parts of the Himalayan mountains. That's where Olympian Arif Khan first put on skis.

Historian Tanisha Ford tells the story of the Harlem activist credited with raising millions to build economic and racial equality in the U.S. Ford's new book is Our Secret Society.

The actor and director can testify about what he learned from one of Harvey Weinstein's accusers, a judge ruled Friday in the rape and sexual assault trial of the former movie mogul.