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Byrne opens up about filming the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense and says the band's hit song "Burning Down the House" is a compilation of "non-sequiturs that have a kind of emotional impact."

During the pandemic, mutual aid groups helped cover where social services fell short. One such group in San Diego was created after seeing connections between homelessness and racial injustice.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt about Donald Trump's legal options after a jury found the former president guilty on 34 felony counts.

President Trump campaigned on a promise to carry out the largest-ever deportation of migrants in the U.S illegally. Chuck Jenkins, sheriff of Frederick County in Maryland, says he is ready to assist.

The Sarasota Police Department may soon be cracking down on the non-euphoric hemp product cannabidoil (CBD) – a cousin of the marijuana plant.CBD's users…

Comedian Mike Birbiglia has a disorder that makes him sleepwalk. He recounts his worst episode — as well as other painfully embarrassing moments — in his comedic memoir, Sleepwalk With Me.

The White House says it wants an immigration system that prioritizes high-skilled workers. But critics say the administration is making it harder for those immigrants to live and work here.

A bill being considered by legislators would cut the required time that a nurse or certified nursing assistant spends with a patient in a long-term care facility from 3.6 hours to one hour. It would also permit nonmedical staff to replace CNAs for 2.5 hours every day.

For more than 50 days, Ukraine's second largest city has been relentlessly shelled. Above ground, parts of the city are unlivable. But below ground, life is trying to find a way.

Housing vouchers are the main way the U.S. helps very low income renters. But they're hard to use, so the federal housing agency is looking into giving people cash instead.

President Trump recently said the only way Democrats "can get elected is to cheat, and we're going to stop it." NPR traveled through swing districts in Pennsylvania to see what people think of that.

The Obama-era program will expire in six months, the administration said on Tuesday. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals granted legal protections to roughly 800,000 people.

A new phishing scam comes in the form of a Google doc link from what looks like a known source. An IT professional explains.

President Trump and his family took in more than $1 billion last year through crypto businesses, a federal filing released Wednesday revealed.

On Friday, President Trump signed a new executive order that added a new $100,000 fee to companies for H-1B visas.

In an emotional video plea, Savannah Guthrie announced a $1 million family reward for her mother, Nancy's, recovery.

Georgia is one of the states that is too close to call in the presidential election. Trump won the state in 2016 by a margin of a little more than 5%. There are also crucial Senate races in the state.

As the delta variant causes more vaccinated people to get "breakthrough infections," concerns are rising that even the vaccinated could develop long COVID symptoms in rare cases.

Wall Drug is a huge, cowboy-themed tourist attraction near Badlands National Park, visited by 2 million people a year. It also has a functional pharmacy that faces many of the challenges of rural health care.

It was Ronald Reagan who started the trend of using pop songs. Chris Willman, the chief music critic at Variety, gives a short history of 200 years of campaign music.

South Florida (27-7) entered looking for its first berth in the Sweet 16, but after a feisty start, couldn't hang with the Gamecocks.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on recent developments around the federal immigration enforcement surge in her home state.

Nearly 30 percent of domestic adoptions are transracial.

When the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moved from Nigeria to the United States for college, she was suddenly confronted with the idea of what it meant to be a person of color in America. Her new novel explores issues of race in contemporary America.

A first novel by a much-honored short-story writer imagines a financial system wracked by risk and on the verge of collapse. Yet Adam Haslett wrote Union Atlantic before the current financial crisis exploded, making him seem more prescient than he will confess to being.