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Amid another season of extreme weather, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with anthropologist Gretchen Bakke about the vulnerability of our infrastructure and how humans adapt to climate change.

In a tearful post-match news conference, the tennis superstar says the sport no longer makes her happy. "I honestly don't know when I'm going to play my next tennis match," she says.

From a deadly factory fire to a presidential showdown with strikers, these major labor events became central to U.S. history, the modern labor movement and the rights afforded to workers.

A look at the possible awards contenders and blockbusters that Hollywood has in store for autumn.

A Texas law that effectively bans abortion after about 6 weeks is allowed to stand, the U.S. military is now out of Afghanistan after 20 years, and the president's approval numbers take a hit.

A government agency protects 1,500 journalists and human rights activists, but it is strapped for resources and its record is mixed.

It's clear the next couple of months won't be the "life as usual" we all hoped for. Here are ways to reframe, breathe deep and manage the stress of yet another COVID surge.

Shugri Said Salh recounts her journey from goat- and camel-herding nomad in Somalia to nurse and mom of three in California in her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert.

The American dream of owning a small home with a backyard is being put on hold. In 1982, 40% of houses built were entry-level homes. By 2019, the annual share had fallen to 7%.

The company will no longer host a website that promoted itself as a way to "help enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act." Online activists and boycotters inundated the site with false reports.