Search results for

Same-sex couples in the conservative state married for the first time on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a federal judge's ruling that struck down the state's gay marriage ban.

Laws banning abortion in many conservative U.S. states are expected to boost birth rates among adolescents, whose bodies often aren't built for safe childbirth, or for carrying a pregnancy to term.

Last week, Bannon found himself cut off from his two biggest patrons: President Donald Trump and conservative activist and donor Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of billionaire investor Robert Mercer.

Both liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices pressed the U.S. government's lawyer about why a detainee at Guantanamo Bay couldn't testify about his own torture at the hands of the CIA.

Delaware Judge Eric M. Davis, known for his poker face, is overseeing both Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News and a similar case against the conservative TV network Newsmax.

Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza's new film "2,000 Mules" alleges massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, but NPR has found the filmmakers made multiple misleading and false claims.

Roy Moore issued a two-pronged defense Friday evening to a Washington Post report. The GOP Senate candidate issued a strongly worded statement just as he went on a conservative radio talk show.

StoryCorps is honing in on lessons about learning with a new project for the academic year called the National Teachers Initiative. It'll feature conversations with teachers across the country — teachers talking to each other, students interviewing the teachers who changed their lives, and more.

David Greenberger relates the fantastical story of FBI agent Big Al and his run-in with dope-running monkeys. The story is based on a conversation with Albert Entzel of Chattanooga, Tenn., and is collected on the CD The Mayor of Tennessee River, music by Shaking Ray Levis.

It's no secret that brains and hearts speak vastly different languages, but British singer Ed Harcourt is conversant in both. "Haywired," from his stellar new album Lustre, finds him sounding perfectly suited to the swooning, swooping sound of falling in love.

A true legend of public radio and a longtime friend of host Marian McPartland, Studs Terkel appeared on Piano Jazz in 1992 for a special fundraising edition. The two quizzed each other about radio, shared memories of jazz personalities and improvised music and conversation.

Visual artist Carrie Mae Weems has been celebrated for her art and activism for decades, and now she can add a MacArthur "genius" grant to her collection. In a conversation with NPR's Michel Martin, Weems discusses life, love and turning 60.

British elections will happen a little over a month from now. Conservatives have led the United Kingdom for more than a decade, but polls show the party has a good chance of being booted from power.

The "Merlympics" are, of course, the Mermaid Olympics, in which swimmers wearing mermaid tails compete in order to bring attention to water and marine conservation issues. A desert mermaid from Utah is all about saving water.

Cities in California have been ordered to cut water use. Farms have not, yet. Inside the industry, there's a quiet debate: Does it makes sense to invest in water-conserving tech now — or later?

Daniel speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers about today's presidential elections in France. Conservative Paris mayor Jacques Chirac defeated socialist candidate Lionel Jospin by a clear margin in this second round of French balloting.

NPR's Emily Harris reports that President Bush's energy priority is to make the U.S. energy-independent. But environmentalists say that means Mr. Bush will put too much emphasis on increasing supplies, and not enough on conservation.

Congressional Republicans and conservative talking heads have been on the attack against the Justice Department civil rights division. The rhetoric is part of a decades-old push and pull over the ideology of the government's civil rights strategy.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy still faces a bloc of conservatives who oppose any short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown. He's trying to muscle through a partisan stopgap bill with border security.

Hot weather tends to put a lot of activities on hold. But it is especially good for bullfrogging. Robert Siegel talks with Willie Lyles, a retired outdoor skills specialist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, about this night-time sport.