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Historian Elliott J. Gorn's new book revisits the 1955 death and public funeral of the African-American teen. Critic Maureen Corrigan says it's a timely story about the fragility of collective memory.

Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in the country. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has referred to the FBI an alleged scheme involving a purported offer to pay a woman to make false sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller. News organizations including NPR received unverified claims about the alleged scheme which have not been possible to substantiate.

Fox News often describes the migrant caravan making its way through Mexico as a coming invasion. President Trump has picked up the phrasing has used it as he campaigns for Republican candidates.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ilana Kaufman of the Jewish Community Relations Council for the San Francisco region about how anti-Semitism is tied to white nationalism.

More than a dozen states have ballot measures aimed at putting stricter rules on candidates and officeholders. One activist says even Watergate didn't ignite such interest in enacting ethics rules.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a five-year-old case that questions the rights outlined in an 1855 treaty between the United States...

The woman, a 51-year-old illiterate farmhand, was convicted in 2010 after an argument with her Muslim co-workers. The country's religious right has called for her execution.

Connecticut voters received a campaign mailer depicting a Democratic state Senate candidate, who is Jewish, greedily holding fists of cash. Many are calling the Republican ad anti-Semitic.

Remains of dozens of people have been recovered in the aftermath of the crash of the plane with 189 aboard. Searchers have located a large object underwater that could be the plane's fuselage.