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For one year, New York-based photographer Shuran Huang followed the Collins family to church, baseball fields and their family-run barbershop.

Migrants from Central America who end up in the U.S. must cross the Guatemala-Mexico border, where immigration control is light to nonexistent. Quicker journeys are spurring more illegal immigration.

Using technology and math, farmers are creating elaborate corn maze designs, from replicas of fine art to Internet kitties. Labyrinths help make ends meet — they yield more cash per acre than crops.

Photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam has helped nurture a generation of South Asian photographers. He was jailed last month on charges of "spreading propaganda and false information."

The cartels' business models are similar to those of big-box stores and franchises, says Tom Wainwright, former Mexico City bureau chief for The Economist. His new book is Narconomics.

Longtime Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman start their biography of Mitt Romney by examining his ancestors, many of whom played crucial roles in the development of the Mormon faith. The Real Romney also examines the candidate's political beliefs and his career in private equity.

Qatar, a U.S. ally, is the regional power best positioned to both influence Hamas and play a mediating role with Israel. Here's what to know.

A rise in cases of Vibrio vulnificus and its spread northward have heightened concern. The CDC is trying to make more doctors aware of the pathogen.

Despite her family encouraging her to evacuate and seek safety regardless of their own situation, Shehade was racked with guilt over leaving her four siblings and parents in the war-torn Rafah, which may soon become a center point in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war as Israeli forces inch toward a ground assault.

Because of the Israeli operation, hospitals lack basic supplies. And doctors must face the heartbreaking decision whether to let one patient die so they can use available resources to save another.

Palestinian American comedian Sammy Obeid talks to NPR's Leila Fadel about telling jokes concerning the Israel-Hamas war.

The UF Health facility in one of Gainesville's poorest neighborhoods opens after a construction process funded by city, county and federal dollars. More than 12,000 patients are expected annually.

A 2023 law that heavily regulates how Florida’s public universities interact with “countries of concern" like China and Cuba has led to FIU closing its largest international campus and blocked the hiring of foreign talent. “It really pushes us further away from FIU’s historic mission," one professor said.

Biden and Trump last shared the stage at two presidential debates in September and October 2020 (a third was canceled due to COVID). Here's how it all it went — and what's different this time around.

The USDA has set a deadline of July 30 for states to hand over the sensitive data of tens of millions of people who applied for federal food assistance, while a lawsuit is trying to stop the collection.

More than 200 Venezuelans were sent to El Salvador's maximum security prison in March, including Frengel Reyes, who was living in Tampa with his wife and is now back in his homeland without her.

Pregnant patients are being asked to make large payments months before they deliver, a change from decades of standard practice. Advocates worry that it allows providers to hold "treatment hostage."

Lawmakers are urging the federal Bureau of Prisons to address prisoner health care after an NPR investigation detailed the stories of prisoners nationwide going without needed medical care.

Brothers Leo and Diego talk about the fraught ways their immigration status marked their childhood, and how they carved a path forward.

COVID relief is drying up and DOGE has thrown into question once-reliable federal funding, leaving many states hunting for alternatives to maintain crucial services. Opioid settlement money can seem like an attractive option.

Psychedelics researchers and investors are still reeling from last week's no vote for MDMA by a panel of advisers to the FDA.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin talks about why he and many of his Republican colleagues believe fire aid for California should only come if there are some strings attached.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Anna Sussman and Amika Mota about their podcast Fire Escape.

Trump and GOP members of Congress accuse the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. Trump plans a rescission, giving Congress 45 days to approve it or allow funding to be restored.