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The World Bank predicts climate change may displace 143 million people by 2050. Environmental shifts have caused migration on smaller scales throughout the history of North America, historians say.

Tahereh Mafi's new novel follows a young Muslim teenager in the years just after 9/11, and what happens when a popular boy in her class falls for her — will she choose love, or self-preservation?

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Working Through the Tears, A Particular Set of Equestrian Skillsand Emo-cheese.

Three days after his lieutenant governor resigned for an "inappropriate overture," Bill Walker, polling far behind the Republican candidate, dropped out of the race to endorse Democrat Mark Begich.

Like protagonist Starr Carter, Amandla Stenberg grew up in a black neighborhood, but attended an overwhelmingly white school. She stars in the adaptation of the novel about a fatal police shooting.

Hundreds of migrants from Central America have crossed into Mexico and want to reach the United States.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks University of Waterloo political scientist Bessma Momani about the regional reaction to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andrew Natsios, former USAID administrator, about President Trump's threat to cut aid because of a migrant caravan that reached Mexico.

The creator of the hit show about a trans woman and her family says patriarchy and white supremacy have a hold on storytelling in Hollywood — and other people want a chance to speak.

In his latest book, Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag uses his ghostly photorealism to create an alternate America overcome by an addiction to technology, by drought, by war and loss and loneliness.

Charlotte City Council members Monday evening could take another step toward the proposed redevelopment of the old Eastland Mall site.Last month, members…

Don McGahn's tenure was capped by shaping Brett Kavanaugh's fight-back rebuttal against allegations of sexual assault. The office has been a perch for major figures from John Dean to Alberto Gonzales.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Don Palmerine, who witnessed a rape as a teenager. After keeping silent for 50 years, he wrote about it in The Washington Post.

A Bollywood actress pilloried 10 years ago for complaining about sexual harassment is now reviving her complaint against a famous actor — and finding support from India's new #MeToo movement.

A growing crowd of Central American migrants in southern Mexico resumed its march toward the U.S. border on Sunday. The advance overwhelmed attempts by Mexican authorities to stop them at the border.

Frequent flyers have often complained of shrinking legroom on flights. Now Congress has ordered the FAA to establish minimum seat widths and pitch — but that's unlikely to result in more space.

After flooding washed untold volumes of soil and silt into the river system, all three of Austin Water's drinking-water plants are running at 1/3 to 1/4 of their normal capacity.

The City Council voted unanimously Monday night to spend $250,000 to study 70 acres of the Eastland Mall site with the developer, Crosland…

Costco is building a facility in Nebraska to process chickens from hundreds of nearby farms for sale as rotisserie chickens. The warehouse retailer sells 60 million rotisserie chickens each year.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with The Brookings Institution's Amanda Sloat about Turkey's possible motivations amid the investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's death.