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The U.S.-Mexico border remains largely closed to migrants because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the number of illegal border crossings is...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Illinois artist and mother of three Ja Nelle Pleasure, who has recently experienced food insecurity, about h...

NPR's Michel Martin checks in with Lisa Goldberg, Vice President of the Board of Directors at Nourish Now, a Maryland-based nonprofit food b...

A wildfire destroyed historic cabins in the Angeles National Forest in September. For some families, these homes were their ties to the past...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf of Period Equity about where the U.S. stands on providing free menstruation products nat...

The Trump campaign paid $3 million to get recounts in two heavily Democratic counties in Wisconsin. The effort backfired in Milwaukee, at le...

We look at what a concession from the Trump White House might look like, and what the president might be able to get done in his remaining d...

The Republican incumbents are baselessly casting doubt on the state's voting system. Some in the GOP worry their words could depress voter t...

Shoppers encountered temperature checks and mall Santas behind plexiglas shields. But online sales may have stolen the show. (Image credit:...

Black Friday traditionally marks one of the busiest shopping days of the year, and this year is no exception. The retailers are predicting a...

Joe Biden won the presidency by stitching together a broad coalition of voters — from former Republicans to young progressives. The question...

By the mid-2000s, an estimated 20% of the human genome had been turned into intellectual property. NPR shares the story of how the Supreme C...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Lisa Scales, CEO of Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, about the challenge food banks are facing as the l...

This Thanksgiving weekend, NPR shares the story of a car sale in California with a hopeful twist.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Priya Chidambaram of the Kaiser Family Foundation about their findings that more than 100,000 residents and sta...

Facebook is accused of failing to censor illegal hate speech by Hindu nationalist politicians in order to preserve relations with India's ru...

Undocumented workers in some states must choose between driving illegally and risking exposure to the virus by sharing rides.(Image credit:...

The officers were unaware they were being filmed by a surveillance camera in Paris as they beat the man. The incident comes as the governmen...

The man who apparently heads Iran's nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has been assassinated in an attack of some kind, just outside the c...

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed by machine gun fire and explosives close to Tehran, according to Iranian state media. No one has claimed respo...

South Korean lawmakers say intelligence officials briefed them on the North's tough pandemic rules, including a Pyongyang lockdown and an ex...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the battle of Chosin Reservoir, a key moment in the Korean War. The war's legacy is felt to this day on...

North Minneapolis's mostly minority community lost its only grocery store this summer. It's a neighborhood grappling with heart disease, obe...

Kylie Moore Gilbert, an Australian professor, was arrested in Iran in 2018 and later received a 10-year prison sentence for espionage, charg...

Nicaragua experienced its strongest storm recorded last week. Now the tens of thousands affected are also contending with a continued govern...