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New Zealand was once heralded for its handling of COVID-19. But these days, infections are rising and the government is having to cope with unrest from anti-vaccination protesters.

Emergency management officials in Madison County said four were injured in addition to those killed when the tornado touched down southwest of Des Moines.

NPR's Michel Martin to speaks with Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, about the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney Lena Zezulin about organizing Russian-Americans and émigrés in the U.S. to speak out against the invasion of Ukraine.

NPR's Michel Martin visits the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson, to memorialize the victims of lynchings that took place in the U.S. after the Civil War.

Before the war, Ukrainian Rehina Solodovnik tutored Russian students online. The teaching has stopped, but she's still getting text messages. "I am so sorry for our government," one student said.

NPR's Michel Martin to speaks with former Federal Public Defender Martin Sabelli about why he thinks so few public defenders are appointed to federal judgeships.

Many Russian immigrants in the U.S. express solidarity with Ukraine while worrying about how the tough sanctions on Russia will affect their loved ones back home.

We look at how Republican-controlled state legislatures are shaping their strategy ahead of the midterm elections, and how their Democratic counterparts are crafting their messaging.

The Norwegian songwriter's new album interrogates what it means for her self-image to be centered on her art, while grappling with the way capitalist forces threaten to mute its radical possibilities.