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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney Cyrus Mehri about whether the NFL policy has lost some of its effectiveness.

Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tells the story of a little-known black tank battalion in World War II. He was inspired to write a book after learning a family friend had been a member of the unit.

Marilee Jones, the former dean of admissions at MIT, inflated her resume and resigned from her position in 2007. Coming back from that kind of mistake can be harrowing — and life-changing.

The titans of Silicon Valley have a grand vision of the future. But they have a tendency to miss the downside of their inventions — think cybercrime and online harassment.

Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level.

Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said that the company is working harder than ever to counteract efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

Venezuela's electoral authorities made it official: Socialist President Nicolás Maduro will be in office for another six years. Opposition leaders are crying foul as protests break out.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant talk about the latest in sports: the Kansas City Chiefs' close win, U.S. Open finals, and more.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.

With health care costs expected to outpace inflation, Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Kent Conrad, D-N.D., want a bipartisan commission to control future Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security costs.

Martin Scorsese's film Killers of the Flower Moon chronicles a series of murders targeting Osage people in the 1920s. Scorsese shot on location in Oklahoma and consulted closely with Osage citizens.

In December, the University of California, San Francisco apologized for unethical experiments on prisoners half a century ago. It was doctors of color who started demanding change.

The pianist's 1958 recording "At The Pershing: But Not For Me" spent 108 weeks on the Billboard album chart.

Scientists say remains of four men exhumed from what was once an Anglican church suggest they were well-nourished, "high-status" leaders in the early 17th century colony. And one was likely Catholic.

President Biden's penchant for Irish poetry is likely to come through during his upcoming visit to the Emerald Isle, where he'll mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

After a nearly two-year investigation and nearly a month more of waiting, people will soon be able to read some of the findings of the Russia investigation — in investigators' own words.

President Trump wants to send more federal law enforcement officials to cities to fight violent crime — as a part of his "law and order" message to suburban voters ahead of the election.

The 448-page document, released Thursday after nearly two years of investigation, depicts a president distraught by the special counsel's inquiry — and aides thwarting his attempts to stop it.

A Vietnamese woman sued South Korea's government over a wartime massacre in her village by South Korean soldiers. A Seoul court recently ruled in her favor but the government will appeal the decision.

The iconic villain Darth Vader has it all: heavy breathing; theme music; brute physical and mental power; and that impenetrable mask. In Vader's case, the mask shields his humanity, making him appear gothic and machine-like.