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1664 episodes transcribedThe protests that erupted in Cuba over the weekend are the biggest the country has seen in decades. Cubans are suffering through a summer of shortages...
In a speech this week, President Biden said Democrats must 'vigorously challenge' what he described as the '21st Century Jim Crow assault' on voting r...
The U.S. military will be fully out of the country by August 31. The Taliban already control more than half of it. A U.S. intelligence assessment repo...
The Biden administration is emphasizing vaccine outreach by 'trusted messengers' — community volunteers, faith leaders, and primary care providers — w...
'Cancelling' is a term that originated in young and progressive circles, where it was used to mean 'boycott,' University of Pennsylvania linguist Nico...
All over the east coast and Midwest, forests are getting hotter and drier. Many are also overgrown and overdue for wildfire. And increasingly, America...
NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports on the story of Alan Hostetter, a former police chief and yoga instructor from California who's now facing conspiracy char...
Critical race theory is a legal framework developed decades ago at Harvard Law School. It posits that racism is not just the product of individual bia...
In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, another music festival took place 100 miles away. The Harlem Cultural Festival featured black musicians...
The Star-Spangled Banner is the official anthem for the United States, but there are plenty of songs that have become informal American anthems for mi...
Cases are surging in countries around the world as the more transmissible delta variant spreads rapidly. Also growing: pressure on vaccine-rich countr...
The former Secretary of Defense was a chief architect of the conflict that came to be known as America's 'forever war.' After his death this week at a...
Los Angeles County — America's most populous county — recently recommended mask wearing even for vaccinated people, just two weeks after the state rel...
Late last year the Senate passed a bill that required U.S. intelligence agencies to share what they know about "unidentified aerial phenomena," the te...
Susana Alvarez, a survivor of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, explained to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Weekend Edition Sunday that residents...
Alicia Argelia met Army veteran Matt Lammers when he rolled into the store where she worked. Matt had lost both legs and one arm during a deployment t...
What's behind the 20-year success of the Fast & Furious franchise? Casting, storytelling and reinvention. NPR's Linda Holmes — who wrote an owner's ma...
For the second weekend in a row, parts of the American West will be gripped by historic heat, coming in the second decade of megadrought that has grip...
Back in March, Congress approved nearly $50 billion in aid for people who need rental assistance to avoid eviction. At the same time a federal morator...
From the beginning of the pandemic, the debate about the origins of the coronavirus was immediately politicized by former President Donald Trump. But...
