NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser about the capital city under President Trump and the ...

In some parts of the U.S. drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts ...

ICE arrested a Columbia University graduate student involved in campus protests over the war in Gaza. Mahmoud Khalil is a U.S. permanent resident. His attorney says he faces deportation.

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

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMC listener Ellen Triebwasser of Red Hook, N.Y., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Canadians fed up with tariff threats and suggestions of Canada becoming the 51st state are now calling Americano coffee ...

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.

Robert Pattinson plays a space traveler who's repeatedly killed and resurrected in the name of scientific research in this ...

Ketchens has been a fixture of the New Orleans French Quarter for nearly four decades. Maureen Corrigan reviews Last Seen, by ...

The program forgives the loans of borrowers who work in public service. The executive action would exclude those who work for ...

Thousands of newly arrived refugees lost financial support and help with setting up their new lives in America. Aid groups ...

If Senate Bill 21 is approved by the Texas House, and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott into law, Texas would become the first state ...