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The songs we love from the first half of the year span a wide emotional and musical range, from wild percussive romps to raw pleas for empathy to Beyoncé's command to leave it all on the dance floor.

A review of Russia's strategy in Ukraine. The Jan. 6 panel says it has evidence Trump broke laws trying to overturn the election. As COVID eases, Biden has a plan to get things back to normal.

The president says the U.S. will respond if it keeps getting hit with cyberattacks linked to Russia. But Putin has shown little interest in combatting cyber crimes called ransomware-as-a-service.

City leaders in Oakland said Wednesday they were optimistic that a judge would soon end nearly two decades of federal oversight of the city's police department.

President Biden has announced he is pardoning everyone convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law. He's now urging governors to pardon those convicted on state possession charges.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Rep. Chris Jacobs of western New York. Jacobs decided not to seek another term in Congress after his support for gun control drew the ire of GOP colleagues.

NPR's Life Kit has tips for throwing a theme party that packs a punch, whatever the occasion.

What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany's former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here's why.

A new group of mostly Black and brown LGBTQ organizers are throwing the Pride March in Philadelphia on June 5, trying to rebuild the event into something more welcoming — and more revolutionary.

Scott Simon questions the automatic aldermanic pay raises in Chicago even as three aldermen face criminal charges in federal court.

A GoFundMe account set up by Pieper Lewis' former math teacher has surpassed the amount of the court-ordered restitution — and people are still giving.

Florida Gov. DeSantis' pugnacious approach to issues involving race, sexual orientation and public health has pushed him to the front of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.