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As a young teen, Najat Hamza fled Oromia, a regional state of Ethiopia, with her father to live in America. At StoryCorps, she spoke about what it means to leave "the familiar" behind.

Science labs across the country are running low on crucial equipment. Our Planet Money team investigated what is behind the supply shortage.

Nine activists and lawmakers were sentenced to prison terms Friday for their participation in the 2019 anti-government protests.

Enticed by what young adults had to share about the pandemic, historian Alexandra Zapruder set out to document history through an online gallery called Dispatches from Quarantine.

One provision in Georgia's controversial law that particularly worries many officials is a new ability for the State Election Board to take over a county's election management.

Members of the two parties are split on how transgender students should participate in sports, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. But opposition to legislating the issue is roughly uniform.

Phil McLean's guests had a surprise when pallbearers brought a casket shaped like a cream donut to his funeral. His cousin made the custom casket to commemorate one of MClean's favorite pastries.

10 years ago, story teller Salma Hasan Ali started a blog marking the month of Ramadan called "30 Days, 30 Deeds." This year, she releases a book of stories and lessons from a decade of the blog.

In Virginia, there's a debate underway about what to do with buildings, monuments and roads named after two Confederate generals — because of their support of Black people after the Civil War.

The hope was that if people weren't out drinking, they wouldn't be spreading the coronavirus. There were unforeseen benefits to the ban, which ended last month — and negative impacts as well.