It's the final week of May. On this week's episode of Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza shares one of his own poems, titled: "Red Dye No. 40." ...

Many in Virginia's Culpeper County are unhappy with the president's pardon of a sheriff convicted of bribery. Trump called him a victim "persecuted by the Radical left monsters and left for dead." ...

The U.S. is bound by international law to protect migrants who are likely to be tortured by their own governments if they go home. The Trump administration is changing the screening process.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

Whale Pass is such a small town, it doesn't have a grocery store. But it does have Alaska's only certified Songahm Taekwondo dojo. That could draw more students to the local school.

After months of political upheaval, South Koreans are going to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new president. But polarization in the Asian democracy remain.

Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her humans back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until locals spotted her more than a year later, surviving in the wild.

Pride month begins today. It's a time to celebrate the accomplishments of the LGBTQ community. But the word "pride" didn't start out as a symbol for LGBTQ empowerment.

Federal authorities filed a hate crime charge against the man they say attacked a group of people in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday. The group was marching in support of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

A former fierce critic of the FBI, Kash Patel is now leading the agency and making drastic changes.

Amy Connor's twin sons were born three months premature, with multiple medical issues. One of her sons needed a blood transfusion, with a particular type of blood. They eventually found a match.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with historian Joshua Zeitz, contributing editor at Politico Magazine, about where military parades fit into the American civic tradition, and why he sees June's parade as a ...