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Is the U.S. safer after the Trump administration launched a war in Iran? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns.

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

Author Soma Mei Sheng Frazier talks about her debut novel “Off The Books." It's about a young Oakland woman who works as an underground chauffeur. Then, Oakland author Carolina Ixta, takes us to Southern California in her new novel "Few Blue Skies." In it a high school student is fighting environmental injustice in her community, and falling in love with her classmate.

Artists and organizers NPR spoke with say they don't expect to see any immediate changes in the live music industry following the Live Nation decision — but they see this is a first step in the right direction.

The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.

Sandip ponders the need to over-explain everything.

The reduction in ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has had an outsize impact on global jet fuel supplies. Prices have doubled.

One of the final steps in preparing for a marathon is a long run. First-timers and seasoned veterans gathered in Boston to test their readiness with a 20-mile group run.

Protesting the government by not paying taxes is one way to be heard. We talk with Ruth Braunstein about her book, My Tax Dollar: the Morality of Taxpaying in America.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations.

Israel and Lebanon are holding historic talks in Washington, D.C.

Richard Kahn testified to the House Oversight Committee that he did not know about Epstein's crimes. He said monetary gifts that Epstein made did not raise any red flags.