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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is gearing up for a battle over implementing two consent decrees designed to reform the city police department and jail.…

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a retrospective look at Mardi Gras, and the year that carnival took place in the dark. Hear the TriPod Xtras…

The adult contemporary star, who became a reluctant giant of smooth jazz in the 1980s, died on Sunday after a six-year battle with prostate cancer.

Climate change is altering the land we live on, and Indigenous communities are on the frontline. In this episode, we bring you to Alaska, where rapid permafrost thaw is threatening the Native village of Nunapitchuk. Then, we head to Louisiana, where the Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe is watching their land disappear underwater due to sea level rise. These threats are forcing these tribes to make the difficult decision: to stay and adapt, or to leave their ancestral home.

NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson speaks with Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, about the role of armed militias in the attack.

The most telling testimony against the Republican former president has come from Republicans he appointed or who supported him and voted for him (and, in some cases, say they would do so again).

In Girl, a young woman in Nigeria is abducted by Boko Haram — and that's just the beginning. For nearly 60 years, its Irish author has written about women "both as victims and as fighters, combined."

Recovery continues in southeast Texas a month after Hurricane Harvey made landfall. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Derrick Ford Freeman, the mayor of Port Arthur, Texas about efforts in his town.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with political scientist Gayil Talshir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about the protests in Israel after the recovery of the bodies of six hostages.

After six days, Matteo Salvini announced Saturday he would allow migrants off a ship docked in Sicily. He is now under investigation for his role in the migrants' detention.