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Former President Trump speaks at a conservative conference in Washington last month.

GOP support for Trump softens as the former president's legal troubles mount

Former President Donald Trump is likely facing a third indictment and maybe a fourth. Fewer Republicans are saying Trump did "nothing wrong," the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.

Carlee Russell, the Alabama nursing student who said she was kidnapped, was charged with two misdemeanors in connection with the hoax, Hoover police announced Friday.

Carlee Russell is charged with kidnapping hoax

It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

Montgomery County communities to see record-setting double digit property value hike

The Montgomery County Auditor's office released a detailed city-by-city breakdown of its tentative property value update Thursday. This year residential properties countywide will see a record setting 34% average increase.

A sign reading "Today's High: 115" is posted in Phoenix, Arizona on July 25.

She is trying to get the U.S. to take extreme heat more seriously. Here's how

Extreme heat killed more people in the U.S. last year than hurricanes, floods, lightning or tornadoes. One expert says it doesn't have to be this way.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are ticking up. But even if illnesses keep rising, it appears unlikely that they will hit previous summer peaks.

The CDC sees signs of a late summer COVID wave

In July, coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and emergency room visits have inched up. Recent summers have seen a bump in COVID-19. This year's rise looks modest so far.

A pediatric neurosurgeon reflects on his intense job, and the post-Roe landscape

Jay Wellons has operated on kids' brains and spinal cords. He writes about the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a life in All That Moves Us. Originally broadcast July 2022.

A summer of extreme heat is raising alarms of health risks. Here, a child plays in a waterfall feature at Yards Park in Washington, D.C., on June 26.

Here's how you can help kids stay healthy if they play outside in a heat wave

Little kids are like a "small potato" whose core can heat up faster than an adult's, an expert tells NPR. Here are tips for helping children stay safe in extreme temperatures.

Kimberly Mata-Rubio, 34, is running for mayor of Uvalde, Texas, in honor of her daughter, Lexi, who was killed in a school shooting at Robb Elementary School in May 2022.

A woman is running for mayor of Uvalde in honor of daughter killed in school shooting

Kimberly Mata-Rubio says she hopes to reunite the community if elected. The town has been torn on how to move on after 19 children and two teachers were killed in the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary.

Jibbs, Nelly, Smino & Chingy. Collage by Jackie Lay / NPR.

How St. Louis recalibrated rap radio

Call the melodic, countrified swing that took over early 2000s radio an overnight sensation if you like, but it didn't come from nowhere — just a city many considered to be nowhere.

Gender rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Many of the bans states passed this year against gender-affirming health care for youth are in federal court and may be on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Can states' bans on transgender care hold up in court? We break down the arguments

The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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