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The International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared that Israel's actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with the association's Emily Sample.

Life was turbulent for Patrick Furlong after his parents divorced when he was in 8th grade. His father left, so he needed to navigate daily routines without a paternal influence in his life.

On Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese and the Allies gathered to mark the official end of WWII. The process went smoothly until Col. Lawrence Cosgrave signed his name on the wrong line.

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells NPR's Leila Fadel why she describes her new album as a "party for heartbreak," and "a celebration of disappointment."

Prosecutors in Jair Bolsonaro's coup-plotting trial deliver closing arguments this week, with the former Brazilian president facing a possible 40-year sentence.

Elizabeth Horner Turner lives in San Francisco. Her book, Horsemouth and Aquariumhead, came out in September 2024. It's a chapbook of flash Fictions, which are really short stories that imaginative and sometimes unsettling.

We hear about San Francisco’s Bag & Tag policy. Then, former Representative Barbara Lee reflects on her career so far. And, the music that makes one Emo radio guy - dance.

The documentary, Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink, tells the story of Alden Global Capitol, a secretive hedge fund that's plundering US newspapers.

In one of the country's priciest housing markets, Utah's leaders worry young people are shut out from building wealth. But despite new incentives, few developers are signing on to build smaller homes.

A historically accurate mural about the Ohlone Native Americans' brutal annihilation by Spanish missionaries is slated to be painted over by property management, allegedly because someone got offended by its portrayal of nudity.

Berkeley's People's Park, long a flash point of political and community activism, has been barricaded by stacked shipping containers for more than a year -- but construction on UC Berkeley's student housing project on the site is moving ahead.

When the truths of science are always shifting, why should we still trust it?