The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and Freemason leader, was vandalized and taken down on Juneteenth in 2020.

Combs was convicted on July 2 of two counts of transportation for prostitution. The music mogul had filed a request to be ...

With the Women’s World Cup in the bag and 88 grand masters, India is ready to take over the chess world. And they’re making ...

In July and August of 2024 in Bangladesh, student protesters’ push for change drove the authoritarian prime minister out of ...

An oral history of the atomic bomb detonations 80 years ago leads this week’s list of publishing highlights, which also ...

Americans love olive oil — and import 95% of it. But tariffs are making it harder for Europeans to sell it to Americans.

Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don’t have jurisdiction over the caller’s case, employees say.

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has ...

Dozens of Texas Democrats left the state to protest a redistricting map, facing potentially steep consequences. Lawmaker ...

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, “Pressing Onward,” and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music.

The trial of the far-right leader is receiving renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump directly tied a 50% tariff on imported Brazilian goods to his ally’s judicial situation.

Gov. Bill Lee declined to grant a reprieve Monday amid uncertainty about whether the implantable defibrillator will shock Byron Black’s heart when the lethal drug takes effect.