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The annual fish fry is hosted by Congressman James Clyburn. He's the most influential Democrat in South Carolina politics, and as House majority whip, the highest-ranking black leader in Congress.

Quimberly 'Kym' Villamer, a nurse at a hospital in New York City, shares what it was like to grow up in the Philippines while her parents worked in the U.S.

Politics is never far from controversy — be it Supreme Court rulings, guns or terrorist attacks, like the one in Paris. President Obama — and the candidates trying to replace him — all weighed in.

Checkpoints have sprung up across Ukraine since Russia's invasion. Men at a checkpoint near Lviv have Molotov cocktails ready. Even hundreds of miles from the battles, the war hangs over everything.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman nominated to the court. For many activists, her confirmation hearings bring pride and inspiration — and resolve against conservative attacks.

Russia is fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. To help civilians escape, the Ukrainian railway runs a free evacuation train out of the east. Here's what it's like.

The election of a cleric with allegiance to Iran's supreme leader will pose unique challenges for the Biden administration — most notably, when it comes to the Iran nuclear deal.

Joe Biden has a long personal relationship with law enforcement, dating back to his work on the 1990s crime bill. But it's not clear those ties will help him in the current debate over police reform.

At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Air Force Captain Ed Dwight was chosen to attend a special astronaut training program. He tells the story of what happened next.

The so-called Park Fire had scorched more than 550 square miles in Northern California as of Sunday, contributing to poor air quality in a large swath of the Northwestern U.S. and western Canada.

In TRIALS, photographer Andrés Mario de Varona collaborated with Marcia Reifman, a survivor of stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma, to create images that acknowledge the self as a living memorial.

Leah Feldman was on the Doctors Without Borders team in the 2014 outbreak. Now she's helping fight the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and literally sweating in her boots.

Nationwide, community members are protesting the teaching of social-emotional learning – largely because conservatives have linked it with another flashpoint in public education: critical race theory.

Harvey talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about her album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam, and why she prefers to make art without boundaries.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on plans by CompuServe Inc., the second largest on-line service, to join the wave of private on-line service providers that are exchanging their private, proprietary software for the open language of the World Wide Web. The move leaves the nation's number-one access provider, America Online, as the sole remaining service to require subscribers to use special software and access points to reach the Internet.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's Supreme Court ruling that upheld the lines for North Carolina's 12th Congressional district. This is the fourth time in litigation for the 12th district, where claims have been made that race was the main factor in its configuration. Congressional mapmakers from other states have been waiting for the court's decision on this case before drawing their own district lines.

A snappy new CD by the Charlie Hunter Quintet features harmonica, sax, trombone, drums, and guitar, underpinned by a funky bass line — but there's no bass player listed in the liner notes. That's because Hunter does double duty, playing bass and guitar lines with his custom-made eight-string guitar. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Hunter about his unique playing style.

For nearly a century, a subway line along Second Avenue on the east side, had eluded New Yorkers, but on New Year's Day three new stations opened to the public.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the front brake lines in the SUVs "may be in contact" with their engine air cleaner outlet pipe due to a potential installation defect.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says if the United States Supreme Court splits along partisan lines, it runs the risk of shaking the faith of the American public.