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Last week, there was a new development in a years-long debate about what to do with a controversial mural at San Francisco's public high school George Washington High. The board is required to leave it as is, after a California Superior Court ruled that they failed to follow environmental impact regulations.

Japan's Olympic organizing chief Yoshiro Mori is resigning amid a firestorm of criticism about his remarks disparaging women's participation in organizing the games.

Sam J. Miller's latest is set in an upstate New York town built on the bones of butchered whales. It's full of broken people, violent ghosts and flying whales, but the real monster is gentrification.

Japan's prime minister announces Tuesday that the Tokyo Olympics, originally due to start July 24 will be postponed until next summer, at latest.

In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

NPR's Noel King talks to John Podesta, former co-chair of President Obama's transition team, about how President-elect Biden's transition may proceed without the cooperation of the Trump White House.

Ari Shapiro speaks with host Maria Garcia, whose childhood on the U.S.-Mexico border informs the show's storytelling about the late queen of Tejano music.

House impeachment managers are rebutting claims from Trump's defense team that the trial is politically motivated because Democrats don't want to face Trump in 2024.

Earlier in the summer, we asked you to vote for your favorite science fiction and fantasy reads of the past decade — so here are 50 fabulous reads, curated by our expert judges and you, the readers.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Gene Sperling, a senior adviser to President Biden and American Rescue Plan coordinator, about the plans to prevent a wave of evictions once the CDC moratorium expires.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, director of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, about the history and future of U.S. policy on the conflict.

Thousands of protesters rallied in Venezuela after the country's opposition leader Juan Guaido called on his supporters to return to the streets to oust President Nicolas Maduro.