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‘Troubling and authoritarian’: Kansas ACLU issues warning ahead of St. Marys library vote

This historically dry, hot year is wreaking havoc across the US. In the Great Plains, widespread drought has dried up water supplies, decimated crop harvests, and left cattle with no grass to eat.

There were a record number of fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021. The Biden administration says it is making progress slowing the rate of deaths linked to fentanyl.

It's the final weekend of campaigning in Georgia's Senate runoff election, between incumbent Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with director Laura Poitras about her new documentary, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," a chronicle of photographer Nan Goldin's activism in the opioid epidemic.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Chuck Hoskin Jr., Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, about the importance of preserving Native languages.

Trevor Noah is stepping down as host of The Daily Show after seven years. We'll listen back to portions of two 2016 interviews with Noah, whose newest standup comedy special just premiered on Netflix.

A new documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed tells the story of Nan Goldin, a photographer and activist who survived opioid addiction — then challenged members of the Sackler family.

Evaristo is the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize in the award's 53-year history.

Biologists at the University of Southern Denmark found that bats have a voice box with thin folds that lets them reach a range of seven octaves. It's similar to how our own voices work.