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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2018, file photo, people arrive before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami Field Office in Miami. One supposed feature of the U visa program is a faster track to citizenship. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

A visa program created to help law enforcement puts immigrant victims at risk instead

The U visa program was created to both help law enforcement solve crimes and protect the immigrant crime victims reporting them. But it puts applicants in limbo for years, unable to work legally.

Kamasi Washington, Tyla and Iron & Wine.

Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and 50 more albums coming out this spring

Get ready for albums by Iron & Wine, Kamasi Washington, Tyla, Vampire Weekend and many, many more.

Sophia Moreno (Apsáalooke/Laguna Pueblo/Ojibwe-Cree) plants crops in the Indigenous gardens outside American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman, Montana.

With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty

Native Americans are returning to raising buffalo and plants that tribes have grown for millennia. It's a way to reconnect with historic traditions, and to bring healthy eating to their communities.

In 2019, Barneys New York went under. But its name lives on under a new owner that specializes in buying and recharging dying brands.

Bankrupt and loving it: Welcome to the lucrative world of undead brands

Remember Juicy Couture and Pier 1? They went under, but not all the way under. Someone still makes millions of dollars off these names. And the hunt for revivable brands is big business.

Jose Gonzalez and his wife Maria, wait for customers in their corner shop that he remodeled, stocked and extended with money he earned over a decade working in the United States, in the Purepecha Indigenous community of Comachuen, Michoacan state, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A town in Mexico survives entirely on money sent back by U.S. migrants

The money has allowed their families to remain in Comachuen, a town in the Michoacan mountains rather than moving to other parts of Mexico for work.

The Virginia Department of Corrections recorded the execution of Travis Spencer's brother. Spencer wants his tape published to hold the state accountable.

Families of executed prisoners want death penalty tapes made public

Virginia said it's keeping execution tapes secret to protect the privacy of the relatives of the prisoners the state recorded. But the families NPR talked with said they want the tapes published.

It's the 10th year of the Kirkus Prize. Meet the winners of a top literary award

The Kirkus Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the U.S. This year's winners are Ariel Aberg-Riger, Héctor Tobar and James McBride.

Barbara Hoctor Lynch, right, is pictured cohosting <em>All Things Considered</em> with Noah Adams at a studio in a former NPR building in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s.

Barbara Hoctor Lynch, former NPR host, has died at 77

The former broadcast journalist who spent time hosting NPR's two flagship news shows during the late 70s, died this month.

A photo released by the North Las Vegas Police Department shows the Dodge Challenger that was travelling more than 100 miles an hour before a fatal crash in January 2022.

Slow down! As deaths and injuries mount, new calls for technology to reduce speeding

Safety advocates want all cars to come with technology that can tell drivers when they're speeding — or even force them to slow down. But the auto industry is not rushing to embrace it.

Yellow box trailers are seen last month at a terminal in Medley, Fla. Despite no official announcement from the trucking company, industry experts say Yellow faces an imminent shutdown.

The Yellow trucking company meltdown, explained

Yellow's demise stems from an exodus of customers, union strife and longstanding financial troubles.

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