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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents encountered nearly 172,000 migrants at the border in March, up 71% from February. The increase included a record number of unaccompanied minors.

Twyla Moves, a new documentary by PBS American Masters, tells the story of the legendary choreographer, who got her start performing on subway platforms and rooftops in the 1960s.

President Biden declared gun violence a public health crisis and a blemish on the nation in remarks at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday.

It's a really large mail-in election. (Yes, this one, too.) The tally of yes and no votes has finally begun.

"A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died," pulmonary specialist Dr. Martin Tobin told jurors on Thursday.

"Hyping the threat that China poses to Taiwan does Beijing's work for it," write Richard Bush and Ryan Hass of Brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Patrick Radden Keefe helped expose the Sackler family's role in the deadly opioid epidemic. His new book deepens the narrative, raising questions about the blurring of medicine and capitalism.

Calls about "extended auto warranties" blow up our phones over and over. But where did these calls begin? And what are they actually offering?

Coronavirus cases are surging in Michigan. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan's chief medical executive, about the state's decision not to implement new restrictions.

With the end of the pandemic possibly approaching, young Americans are getting ready to make up for lost time and lost partying, much like their great-grandparents did a century ago.

Nine are dead after a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. Family members waited hours Friday morning for news of their loved ones at a nearby airport hotel. Police are seeking a motive.

Those with ties to the Amish are figuring out the best ways to educate and encourage them to get the shot, as COVID-19 cases surge in their communities.

A handful of states and cities are rethinking police traffic stops. They want to reduce or eliminate what critics have long called "fishing expeditions" that disproportionately affect people of color.

Press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden would raise the refugee cap by May 15. Earlier, the White House said it would keep the number of refugees capped at 15,000 for the fiscal year.

Biden calls Putin. Denmark stops using the AstraZeneca vaccine.

After the mass shooting Thursday in Indianapolis, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rev. Charles Harrison, president of the Indianapolis TenPoint Coalition, about the impact of gun violence in his city.

Which communities could suffer most from the Johnson & Johnson vaccination pause? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Dr. Paul Adamson, an infectious diseases fellow at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Julie Fisher, the first U.S. Ambassador to Belarus since 2008, about last year's disputed presidential election and where diplomatic relations currently stand.

The Trump administration banned federal funding for scientific research on fetal tissue from abortions. The Biden administration is expected to reverse that.

A Finnish computer scientist had a dream that a blackbird was speaking to her in human language. So she devised a computer program to transform the sounds of the human voice into birdsong.