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Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning. Here is what to know.

Three citizenship ceremonies NPR attended in the Washington, D.C. area in January were largely celebratory experiences, despite a year of hurdles and changes to the naturalization process.

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

The silver screen will be shining at this year’s Oakland International Film Festival. Today, a conversation with the festival’s co-founder David Roach. Then, a reflection on parenting, perfection and discipline. And, a Berkeley author’s book on how the government tried to save the country, one song at a time.

The documentary, No Place to Grow Old, focuses on the fastest growing population entering homelessness across the country: adults ages 55 and older.

The Kolkata yellow cab has been one of the icons of the city.Bright yellow and rotund, sometimes described as a bowler hat on wheels, based on the Morris Oxford, these were all Ambassador cars. But recently the yellow taxis of Kolkata enjoyed a last hurrah.

This week, Bay Made is featuring Áccented hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and Philip Nguyen. The show fosters engaging and culturally insightful conversations across the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.

Today is International Podcast Day!

Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.

Our podcast in residence, Not Born Yesterday, finishes up their with stay with a live taping of an episode about caregiving at KALW's event space in downtown San Francisco.

After President Trump's upheaval at Davos, U.S. allies are openly questioning whether Washington can still anchor the rules-based order.

A dangerous winter storm is cutting across the nation's midsection, from New Mexico all the way up through Maine. More than 100,000 customers lost their power, and thousands of weekend flights were cancelled.