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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to "stand shoulder to shoulder" with war crimes prosecutors in Ukraine as he made an unannounced visit to the country.

In 1927, author Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last known living person who could recount the experience of being taken captive in Africa and transported on a slave ship to America.

An initiative backed by families of people who’ve been shot by police may not appear on Washington’s November ballot after all. That’s because sponsors...

Syrians who say they've been tortured worry that their claims will fall by the wayside as countries start to re-open ties with the government.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kris Brown, president of the advocacy group Brady United, about charges filed against the parents of an accused high school shooter in Michigan.

For many African Americans, patriotism is complicated because the promises of America aren't fulfilled equally. The Fourth of July brings a challenge: reconciling national pride with systemic racism.

Results trump courtesies when a person's health is on the line, some people said. No, others responded, saying that proper treatment also requires a human touch.

The Endangered Species Act was signed 50 years ago Thursday. Deborah Sivas, a professor of environmental law at Stanford University, tells NPR's A Martinez why the law needs to be updated.

The novelist and poet Sinan Antoon, raised in Iraq and now living in New York, returned home following the 2003 U.S. occupation. That experience inspired his new work of fiction.

Saudi officials initially claimed that the journalist, who had been missing since Oct. 2, left their consulate in Istanbul alive.