Noah Caldwell

Want to understand the dramatic shift in Latino views on abortion? Go to Arizona

Noah Caldwell

Arizona has seen rising support for abortion rights among Latinos. The reasons are varied and complicated.

Louis Cole commands the pulpit as singers join in the performance at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

With a new orchestral album, Louis Cole pulls magic out of the air

Noah Caldwell

Louis Cole is a prolific musician known primarily as a drummer, but whose music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock. Now he's in a whole new space.

Katie Ledecky reacts after setting a world record and winning the Woman's 1500m Final at the FINA Swimming World Cup in 2022.

Katie Ledecky tells NPR about her plans for the Paris Olympics — and LA in 2028

Juana Summers

Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.

Alabama executes man by nitrogen gas for the first time in the U.S.

Chiara Eisner

Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after a slew of last-minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.

The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises

Tom Dreisbach

Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) leaves the Senate chamber in May.

This Republican senator wants an expanded child tax credit — with work requirements

Juana Summers

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says the U.S. has lost focus over the last 20 to 30 years and economic policies need to be geared towards creating stable work for families.

Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme in the city of Taiz on September 11.

The U.N.'s food program has a funding problem. Now millions are going hungry

Mary Louise Kelly

Cindy McCain, the U.N. World Food Programme's executive director, has been tasked with closing the giant hole in the budget.

Record producer Zev Feldman (left) and John Fowler, a charter member of the Left Bank Jazz Society, meet outside the Charles Theater in downtown Baltimore. The building once hosted some of the best jazz musicians in the country.

In a Baltimore basement, a jazz detective strikes gold

Alejandra Marquez Janse

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.

Babacar Niang, known as Matador, raps at a recording studio at Africulturban's center in Pikine, Senegal.

Senegal's artists are fighting the system with a mic and spray paint

Ayen Bior

A cultural center in Senegal is creating a safe space where artists can use their platform to speak about climate change while also finding opportunities in the art and music scene.

Pape Dieye tells people it's not worth the risk to try to take a boat from Senegal to Europe.

People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. Here's why he says no

Ayen Bior

By day, Saint-Louis native Pape Dieye is a boat captain-turned-tour guide for a fancy hotel that caters to Westerners. By night, he turns down requests to smuggle human beings across the ocean.