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The response comes weeks after the Trump administration ordered schools cease all efforts to support racial diversity or risk losing federal funding.

Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy spoke by phone recently, according to the Vatican.

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum marks the 400th anniversary of the Yamaki Pine, an ancient tree that survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and has since become a symbol of peace.

Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Philippines' ambassador to the U.S., details how Manila handles the power struggle between Beijing and Washington.

California lawmakers are rushing to fix last year’s controversial changes to the state’s lemon law, which critics say weakened protections for car buyers.

Doctors who mail abortion medication pills across state lines have been on alert ever since Louisiana, which bans abortion, indicted a New York doctor for mailing the pills to a woman there.

When the toll collector asked Leahruth Jemilo how she was doing, she burst into tears. The collector's response has stayed with her ever since.

In some rural areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the late 1950s, and hospitals are shuttering labor and delivery units, leaving mothers little access to care when they need it.

This Independence Day, NPR wanted to know how the freedoms and ideals of the U.S. have been on readers' minds.