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Oakland-based author Meg Elison reads from her book "Find Layla." It's about a girl named Layla who is having a hard time growing up.Click the play button…

"Outside Myself," Infinity Song's entry for the Morning Edition Song Project, is about trying to remember the big, wide world outside of you.

"For a long time, a certain set of men have called women like me 'witches' to silence and discredit us," West says. Her book explores misogyny, the #MeToo movement and growing up female in America.

Texas officials have tried to take action to punish clinics encouraging "birth tourism." But there are laws that can be used there, if there's evidence and they're enforced.

Some states in the rural West are still reporting very low numbers of COVID-19 cases. But there are pockets with high infection rates: wealthy resort towns with a lot of visitor traffic.

Latin American immigrants have different attitudes toward homosexuality than do their U.S.-born children, according to a poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Everyone is talking about the spectre of AI catastrophe. Can the U.S. and China agree on guardrails to blunt the biggest risks when their leaders meet next week?

Eddie Murphy's classic comedy about an African prince who comes to New York City is getting a sequel. Black-ish creator Kenya Harris is writing a script and Eddie Murphy may be involved as well.

Researchers sampled air from a zoological park and found DNA from nearby animals. They hope the work can be used to track endangered species in the wild.

Some struggling small towns in rural America are beginning to tap into a new model as they try to revive themselves. Small, craft breweries are bringing people back to these declining areas.

Abortion-rights activist Patricia Maginnis died earlier this year at age 93. She's a lesser-known figure in the movement, but her ideas — which started as fringe — became mainstream.

Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America has been adapted into an HBO drama. It imagines the anti-Semitic hero Charles Lindbergh winning the United States presidency in 1940.