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New Yorker writer Alexis Okeowo wanted to get past standard journalistic narratives of war and tragedy and show people as flawed, complicated individuals in her new book, A Moonless, Starless Sky.

Scholars Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.

City officials have named the 12 people killed in a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday.

Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. government will ban transgender people from serving in the military, citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption."

People used more cups and paper when recycling was an option versus when they had to put them in the trash. Researchers say people's guilt for wasting is overridden by the good feelings for recycling.

People in northern Kentucky are reacting to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. It is near the hometown of James Alex Fields Jr., the man who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one woman.

What is it that makes you...you? NPR's Shankar Vedantam explores new research that suggests the labels we use to categorize people affect not just who they are now, but who they'll be in the future.

In some cities, people have fallen in love with motorized scooters. The Los Angeles Times reports some people in that city have damaged scooters, throwing them off balconies or in the ocean.

A service in car-dependent LA is attracting lots of clients. Chuck McCarthy is an actor who started a people walking business. For $7 a mile, he'll take humans on walks. He chats but mostly listens.

A look at the "white people food" trend that's caught on with millennials in China.(Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on June, 25, 2023.)