A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

The pandemic decimated the box office and the reshaped the moviegoing experience. NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, looks ...

Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of proclamations celebrating Women's History in March. NPR readers share stories ...

New Justice Department leaders say past enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act is "the prototypical ...

Fast-moving brush fires fanned by high winds burned through a large swath of land on New York's Long Island on Saturday, ...

An NPR investigation finds problems with the federal court system and a deep culture of fear about reporting judges for abusive behavior and sexual harassment.

The U.S.-Mexico border is quieter than it's been in years. Vice President Vance says the Trump administration deserves the credit, but migrant apprehensions have been falling for months.

The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Cleveland mayor Justin Bibb who argues that President Trump's budget cuts and funding freezes will hurt cities like his.

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A ...