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Hours after a story aired on NPR's Morning Edition last week, a federal judge found "extraordinary circumstances" that called for Eva Cardoza's release from a federal prison in Connecticut.

After a years-long legal battle, USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and their insurers have agreed to pay victims of disgraced former team doctor Larry Nassar $380 million.

The nation's first new nuclear reactor in over 40 years is about to go into full operation in Georgia. But it comes at a steep cost to electricity customers and follows years of construction delays.

Kabul fell to the Taliban close to two years ago, but desperate Afghans continue to flee, even taking the dangerous journey into the U.S. across the Mexican border.

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Keri Blakinger, a reporter with The Marshall Project, received word this week that the Florida state prison system placed her book, Corrections in Ink, on a temporary ban.

When incarcerated people leave prison, are they actually free? NPR's Michel Martin talks to singer/songwriter John Legend about a new documentary he narrates.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to former Knesset member Michal Cotler Wunsh, about the state of Israeli democracy in the wake of an attempted judicial overhaul, resulting in massive protests there.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Soundtrack Show, Reservation Dogs, Janelle Monáe and more.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, states could offer free meals to every public school student every school day. That program ended, but some states, like Vermont, are looking to keep it on their own.

A far-right, anti-government militia member was sentenced to 126 months in prison on Monday for obstructing justice in an investigation into the shooting of law enforcement officers in Oakland and for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Vow, which made the meatball from the genetic code of the extinct mammoth, wants to transition people away from meat-eating. It used faux meat to symbolize how climate change affects biodiversity.