Megan Rapinoe will end her career having won at least two World Cups and one Olympic gold medal and having been awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Re-entry to society from prison is hard. A simulation exercise by the Department of Justice is meant to show just how many barriers formerly incarcerated people face after their release.
This year, for the first time NPR's Student Podcast Challenge offered a special prize for the best student podcasts about mental health. The finalists had important things to say.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating after a Cessna business jet crashed in Riverside County and burst into flames. It's the second deadly crash near the same Riverside County airport within a week.
Philadelphia is the latest Democratic jurisdiction to sue sellers of gun parts that are easily turned into untraceable "ghost guns." Similar recent attempts have had mixed results.
New laws aim to change the power imbalance in rent court, where tenants with no lawyer are more likely to lose. But some cities have a shortage of attorneys or no set way to pair them with renters.
There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.
NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.
A federal commission to reduce the number of missing persons in Indian Country is wrapping up hearings across the country. The U.S. Department of Justice is committing new resources.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Clint Henderson, a reporter and editor at the travel website The Points Guy, about major delays for passport renewals this summer.