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New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, says the unit will help curb gun violence and will be run differently than the original, which was ruled unconstitutional.

Fewer volunteers are answering triple the number of calls they did decades ago and those who do show up tend to be older. Some departments were already stretched thin and then along came the pandemic.

Chelsea Gray scored 20 points to lead the Las Vegas Aces to their first WNBA title in a 78-71 road win over the Connecticut Sun in Game 4 on Sunday.

Host Scott Detrow hears about the Academy Award nominees for best original film score.

Rachel Martin talks to Jonah Goldberg, senior editor at National Review, about Monday's deadline for William Barr to provide an unredacted version of the Mueller report and other underlying evidence.

The Pasquotank County sheriff says the deputy who shot and killed Anrew Brown Jr. while serving a search warrant has been put on leave pending an investigation.

Kate Ranta is one of those who filed a brief at the Supreme Court in support of gun restrictions in a case that will be heard next week. She was almost killed by her husband several years ago.

Five of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet on Friday are still missing. Authorities believe they had help from the inside and made an arrest on Tuesday.

Spanish-language soccer announcers have captivated Americans since the U.S. hosted the 1994 World Cup. The different style of play-by-play and color commentary evokes strong emotions in fans.

For most people, more education leads to healthier and longer lives. Not so for Black men. Racism's power in harming their health may be more persistent than previously understood, researchers say.

Koester, who died May 12, was the founder of Delmark Records, which released records by blues and jazz artists. He also operated the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago. Originally broadcast in 2003.

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

The damned wear Yale varsity sweaters in Seymour Chwast's graphic novel adaptation of Dante's masterpiece. Chwast's diabolically witty cartoon drawings mix Hell's medieval monsters with the tropes of film noir and the zaniness of indie comics.

The Spokesman-Recorder was founded on the mission of telling stories from the Black perspective in Minnesota. Now its small team of journalists have taken on covering the Derek Chauvin trial.

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

The FDA is expected to authorize boosters for omicron. Serena Williams wins her first U.S. Open match. And, Ukraine asks the EU to ban Russian travel for tourism.

Farai Chideya talks with journalist and author Steve Bogira about his book Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse. Bogira spent an entire year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, observing the criminal justice system and the men and women on both sides of the dock.

Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals will become increasingly commonplace as human expansion into previously uninhabited areas intensifies.

At least one person was killed in the explosion that damaged the fertility clinic, authorities said. The FBI said the explosion was "intentional act of terrorism."

Larry Krasner, considered one of the country's most progressive district attorneys, has left U.S. Attorney William McSwain "fed up."