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A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Holly Martinez, the executive director of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, about how closing the gender pay gap could help reduce homelessness.

Flimsy boats, EU policies and an increase in migrants attempting the crossing are some of the factors converging to make this year an especially deadly one.

Most of the fentanyl comes through legal ports of entry. We hear the story of one of the couriers.

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he aims to forge a stronger relationship with Washington, and China's territorial expansion in the South China Sea will be a major topic to discuss.

In Steamboat Springs, Colorado, there's a rare sulfur cave where people are normally forbidden to go. But Aaron Scott, the co-host of NPR's science podcast Short Wave, recently got a chance to go in.

If you're on the market for a "2015 Furcedes" named Buddy you're in luck, thanks to a social media manager's campaign modeled after Carvana. Pippi's Place in Atlanta has a Furrari and a Meowzda, too.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with sports psychologist Dr. Mark Aoyagi about the way athletes deal with psychological pressure at the Olympics.

You'll see testing in some airports these days — it's just like we're going back in time! And speaking of looking back, the things that protected fliers from COVID then are still a good idea.

Former President Donald Trump faces his fourth indictment since April, this one in Georgia. We look at the sweeping racketeering case and what comes next.

Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.

Kim Krawczyk, a teacher who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2018, shares advice for the community in Uvalde, Texas, after last week's mass shooting there.