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Casting a ballot after serving in prison comes with joy and pain for the formerly incarcerated, particularly because not everyone has their rights restored after completing their sentence.

Whether it's a wedding, graduation or meeting, indoor events can spread the virus. Here's a complete guide: what to ponder before going, how to cut risks while there, what to do if cases crop up.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Brian Mann explores the potential reasons for the surprise drop in overdose deaths across the country, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jack Schlossberg, Democratic candidate for New York's 12th Congressional District and the grandson of President John F. Kennedy.

Recent research suggests there's more going on with "ideological sorting" than simply moving to places that match one's politics. It's often one of many deciding factors, such as taxes or safety.

The Inuit people of Greenland are trying to get the European Union's ban on the sale of seal products overturned.

African-Americans weren't the only group of people segregated in U.S. history. We hear from a Mexican-American who was prohibited from attending white schools in the Southwest.

In Athens, Greece, a tech startup is helping people redistribute their leftover medicine through an app called GivMed.

Andrew Goodman, one of the three civil rights activists slain in Mississippi, spent summers with his family in New York's Adirondack Mountains. People in the village of Tupper Lake, N.Y., say Goodman should be remembered as a hero.

The heart of Iraq's refugee crisis lies in the country's north, where the Yazidi people, a religious minority, are fleeing the approach of Islamic State militants.