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Asylum-Seekers Make Harrowing Journeys In Pandemic, Only To Be Turned Back

Rights groups accuse nations of using COVID-19 as an excuse to shut out refugees. Here's one story of migrants who attempted a risky voyage across the Mediterranean, but Malta sent them back to Libya.

Rep. Barney Frank shows emotion at a ceremony in December 2010 when President Obama signed the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal legislation that would allow gays to serve openly in the military. Frank, who retired two years ago, spent his career fighting for gay rights.

Barney Frank's Journey From Closeted To An Openly Gay Member Of Congress

In his new memoir, Frank describes how early in politics he feared people would "draw inferences" if he supported gay rights. But his drive to fight discrimination was stronger.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks as President Joe Biden reacts at an event celebrating Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House on April 8, 2022.

Jackson notes the progress she represents in her journey to the Supreme Court

A day after the Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, she spoke at the White House with President Biden and Vice President Harris

Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully, who co-authored the NOPI cookbook, out this week.

In 'NOPI,' An Ottolenghi Cooking Journey From Middle East To Far East

Yotam Ottolenghi and his head chef Ramael Scully discuss NOPI, their latest cookbook. It's named for the popular London restaurant that Ottolenghi owns and where Scully is head chef.

Hurricane Hunters: Data’s journey from the sky back to Earth

The Hurricane Hunters of Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi fly dozens of missions into tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the central Pacific for the National Hurricane Center. They gather critical weather data that is used to create critically important computer models and weather outlooks.

Cambodia's difficult journey to get stolen sculptures back from the Met

Fourteen stolen sculptures are back in Cambodia after New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return them. Thousands of historical artworks are thought to have been trafficked out of Colombia.

Pallbearers carry the coffin of late Britain's Queen Elizabeth II covered with the Royal Standard of Scotland, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh.

Queen Elizabeth's coffin arrives in Edinburgh ahead of a final journey to London

The coffin travels more than 100 miles to the royal Palace of Holyroodhouse in the Scottish capital. Eventually, the queen's body will be taken to London for the Sept. 19 funeral.

Taylor Swift watched the Kansas City Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. At one point she ate a snack and unknowingly set a meme in motion.

The journey of 'seemingly ranch,' from meme to top of the Empire State Building

Heinz and Primal Kitchen are selling limited-edition bottles of "Seemingly Ranch" dressing. The Empire State Building lit up in red and white. It all started, as so many trends do, with Taylor Swift.

Justinian Huang with his dog Swagger in California.

Homeward Bound: Pets' Incredible COVID-19 Journeys To Reunite With Owners

Travelers were stuck without a way to get back to their pets amid coronavirus travel restrictions. Now expats in China are chartering a flight to bring dogs and cats over to their owners.

Life Expectancy Study Jolts Assumptions Made About Life In America

NPR's David Greene talks to Dr. Steven Woolf, lead author of a study that finds U.S. life expectancy is declining, and is not keeping pace with other wealthy countries.

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