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In New York Diaries, editor Teresa Carpenter presents 400 years of diary excerpts written by people who've lived in or just passed through one of the greatest cities in the world.

Two terminally ill teenagers fall in love in this sensitive, surprisingly heartening young-adult novel that asks big questions with gravity, and approaches tragedy with humor and heart.

Denied USDA loans and grants for over a century, Black farmers will receive stimulus money. Black farmers won a class action discrimination lawsuit in the '90s, but many didn't get debt relief.

Members of George Floyd's family and legal team, kneeled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds outside the Hennepin County Courthouse just moments before the start of Derek Chauvin's murder trial.

An 18-year-old black male was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in St. Louis. The incident comes 2 months after the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb.

Novelist T.C. Boyle takes on a California environmental battle while Mary Doria Russell takes a fresh look at the Wild West of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. In nonfiction, Sarah Vowell tours Hawaii, Charles Fishman looks at the future of water, Allen Shawn reflects on being a twin, and Ben Ryder Howe on running a Brooklyn deli.

An unknown number of people are still without drinking water in Jackson, Miss., after a winter storm two weeks ago. In some areas, service has been restored but they're still under boil water notices.

During the Civil Rights movement, the late scholar Ronald Walters helped lead a sit-in that desegregated the Dockum Drug Store. Now his hometown of Wichita, Kan., is naming a library after him.

President Biden is making his opening pitch for an infrastructure plan that could eventually reshape the U.S. economy. It also reframes the idea of infrastructure beyond simply roads and bridges.

A district court judge has dismissed claims that former White House officials conspired to forcibly remove peaceful protesters last year from Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square.

Law professor Joseph Margulies explains how the now-repealed Georgia statute came about — and how its interpretation could decide the fate of the three men accused of Arbery's murder.

Army bases across the South will be stripped of names honoring the Confederacy. A federal commission has begun that job — and now potential new names are beginning to emerge.

Testimony began in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery. The men allegedly thought Arbery was involved in recent break-ins and chased him down in pickup trucks.

On January 1, 2022, thousands of creative works will go into the public domain in the U.S., including famous creations like Winnie-the-Pooh, Bambi, and a trove of early sound recordings.

Rescue and recovery efforts continue in parts of the South and Midwest after deadly storms tore through six states early yesterday morning. Mayfield, Kentucky, was especially hard hit.

Baristas and other workers from three stores voted whether to unionize. Starbucks fought the plan. Now

Local police in Texas say 16 people were found alive and transported to area hospitals, including 12 adults and four children. Authorities believe they were victims of human smuggling.

Thirty communities in Wisconsin vote Tuesday on ballot questions asking whether the US should withdraw troops from Iraq. The effort is similar to one in Vermont, where last year dozens of towns did the same thing. Opponents say the effort undermines the war and sends a bad message to both troops and insurgents. Proponents say they support U.S. troops -- but oppose the war. Shawn Johnson of Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

In the coming week, Episcopalians in the United States will once again debate the role of gays and lesbians in their church. Delegates are gathering for the denomination's general convention in Columbus, Ohio. They'll vote on whether to sanction same-sex unions and whether to apologize for electing an openly gay bishop. Jason de Rose of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Two years after making Massachusetts the nation's first and only state to legalize gay marriage, the state Supreme Court rules that, in most cases, same-sex partners from out of state cannot come to Massachusetts to get married.