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Freya Sampson's new book is a charming and warm-hearted story about an eclectic group of people trying to save their local library--It’s called The Last Chance Library.

Public health data experts have a new way to calculate the underreporting of people killed by police. Criminologists call the results "interesting" but are reserving judgment on the accuracy.

U.S. journalist Danny Fenster remains in Myanmar's most infamous prison months after the Feb. 1 coup that restored the military to power and a spurred crackdown on dissent.

The pandemic has intensified burnout among health care workers. They say it's eroding their passion for the job and the quality of patient care. Here's how some of them are trying to solve it.

It's not always easy to convince kids that reading isn't a chore. But reading aloud can help. Here are a few ways to help you find joy — and value — in reading aloud as a family.

Women's March is helping put on Saturday's protests against Texas' restrictive abortion law, with a flagship march to the Supreme Court planned in Washington, D.C.

Linda talks with Youk Chhang (YOLK CHANG) about the death of Pol Pot from Phnom Penh. Chang is executive director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia. Chang has been working with researchers to document the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians killed under Pol Pot, former leader of the Khmer Rouge.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports that Paula Jones announces today whether she will appeal the dismissal of her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr reversed course today and announced he won't accept a dean's position at a Pepperdine University school that got financial assistance from a critic of President Clinton.

Nadine Seiler, one of those who watched over a fence at what became Black Lives Matter Plaza, is working to find homes for more than 700 artifacts that once covered the structure near the White House.

Jeanine Menze was discouraged from pursuing her dream to fly planes when she didn't see any women of color in the field. Then she met La'Shanda Holmes. "When I met you, I saw myself," Menze told her.

A Twitter account was posing as the new Taliban-appointed head of the school when it said women would be barred. But the chancellor tells NPR female professors and students will resume their studies.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to the British songwriter about writing her atmospheric and experimental sophomore album, Colourgrade.

As fires ravage Northern California, lawyers have descended on the region in a bid to sign up victims as clients. But some survivors of past fires are warning recent fire victims to beware.

NPR's Ari Shaprio speaks with Thaddeus and Natasha Johnson of Georgia State University's Criminal Justice Department on the future of police reform talks after efforts failed in the House last week.

Can you force a power grid operator to ditch coal-fired power in favor of renewable energy? That's what Chinese courts are deciding in two landmark environmental law cases.

The Women's March group is organizing protests across the United States in support of abortion rights: a response to the recent restrictive law passed in Texas.

Yale University, which has had the map since the 1960s, confirmed this month what some have been arguing for decades.

School board meetings, usually one of the most mundane examples of local democracy in action, have exploded with vitriol across the country in recent months, and many school leaders are scared.

A federal judge will decide whether to block Texas' new restrictive abortion law after hearing from Justice Department attorneys and lawyers for the state. He offered no timetable for a decision.

Humpback whales are rebounding after a warm water event that killed off sea life in the North Pacific. Researchers at Glacier Bay say it's a relief to see baby whales in the water again.