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Waiting For Justice: Defendants Locked Up For Years Awaiting Trials, Sentencing

Across California, 44,241 people are being held in a county jail without being convicted or sentenced for a crime. That’s three-quarters of all inmates.

North County Group 'Resilience' Is Helping Kids Get Out Of Gangs

Gang involvement has led to jail time, substance abuse and death. A North County group is helping at-risk youth resist the lure of gangs, and have a chance at a new life.

Vaccinated? Your Poop Could Help COVID-19 Research

Persephone Biosciences wants to enlist 250 San Diegans to share stool staples to analyze how the COVID-19 vaccine interacts with our bodies.

Former President Donald Trump tosses a MAGA hat to the crowd before speaking at a rally in Florence, Ariz., in January.

Trump's MAGA is marching down a trail blazed by the Tea Party

The populist energy within the Republican Party goes by the name the former president gave it: MAGA. And its influence on the 2022 midterms seems destined to track that of the Tea Party surge in 2010.

Bottles of Gatorade are pictured in Glenside, Pa. on Monday. PepsiCo recently began phasing out the 32-ounce Gatorade bottles in favor of 28-ounce ones, which are tapered in the middle to make it easier to hold them. The changeover has been in the works for years and isn't related to the current economic climate, PepsiCo said.

'Shrinkflation' accelerates globally as manufacturers quietly shrink package sizes

Shrinkflation isn't new, experts say. But it proliferates in times of high inflation as companies grapple with rising costs for ingredients, packaging, labor and transportation.

Smokes and flames billow from burning narcotic drugs during a destruction ceremony of seized narcotic drugs in outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar on June 26, 2018.

1 billion pills: The number of seized drugs reaches ominous record in Asia

A U.N. official calls for new policies across East Asia to halt the soaring production of methamphetamines.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn addressed the crowd at a rally for former President Donald Trump on April 9 in Selma, N.C.

Scandal-plagued Rep. Madison Cawthorn is ousted in North Carolina primary

The Republican narrowly lost to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who had received the backing of some Republicans who had tired of Cawthorn's controversies.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks in Brussels on Feb. 18. Ethiopia's government is criticizing Tedros' statement that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on Earth" and his assertion that the lack of attention from global leaders may be due to Tigrayans' skin color.

Ethiopia denounces WHO head for saying crisis ignored because of Tigrayans' skin color

Ethiopia's government is criticizing as "unethical" the statement by the World Health Organization's director-general that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on Earth."

Zoe Touray (left) Eliyah Cohen (middle) and RuQuan Brown (right) are some of the student activists leading the charge for gun reform.

We asked 5 students: What inspired you to become a gun control activist?

NPR spoke with high school and college students who have been impacted by gun violence, and are now working to make sure others won't be.

Tampa Bay Times reporters Corey G. Johnson, right, Rebecca Woolington, center, and Eli Murray, left, are announced as the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on Monday. The winning series, "Poisoned," exposed dangers at Florida's only lead smelter.

Here are the 2022 Pulitzer Prize news winners

The 2022 Pulitzer Prize awards were spread across a wide range of newsrooms and subjects, from toxic workplace hazards to the Jan. 6 attack.

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