The first official outdoor exhibition on Washington D.C.'s National Mall showcases six artists whose monuments honor American stories missing from the heart of the country's capital.
An artillery shell should have killed Andrii Smolenskyi in May. Instead, the blast tore off both of his arms above the elbow and destroyed his eyes. Now he's fighting to put his life back together.
In elementary school, NPR's Malaka Gharib visited her dad in Cairo each summer. It was hot, there was no AC — but she coped. In this age of global warming, she wonders: How are Egyptians getting by?
A new law in Minnesota speeds up restoration of voting eligibility to the formerly incarcerated. Now advocates are fanning out to convince people to use those rights.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa was re-elected for a second and final five-year term on Saturday, in results announced much earlier than expected in another troubled vote in the country.
Decades after the 1963 March on Washington, thousands again gathered in the nation's capital to declare that Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy was in jeopardy amid fresh civil rights struggles.
A man opened fire at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville on Saturday, killing three people before taking his own life. Police described the shooting as a "racially motivated" hate crime.
For 35 years, Barker was a familiar presence in the living rooms of everyone from little old ladies, to kids home sick from school. He used his fame to promote another great passion: animal rights.