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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Ashley Hemmers who lives on the Fort Mojave reservation, which encompasses areas of Arizona, Nevada and California, about climate change's impact on Indigenous communities.

A number of survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre had a setback recently when a lawsuit seeking damages from the state was dismissed. The suit would have compensated them and their descendants.

Author Mark Walczynski said the expedition's legacy should be viewed not as an isolated journey, but a pivotal turning point in North American history on par with the later Lewis and Clark expedition to the American West.

As resistance to traditional insecticides grows in head lice, some researchers are abandoning poison shampoos and taking a different approach, from electrocution and suffocation to a lotion that acts as a shrinkwrap.

What role is religion likely to play in the 2008 presidential election? How are the candidates dealing with the issue? John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, offers his insights to Steve Inskeep.

As a way to fight climate change, students at hundreds of campuses are pushing their colleges to divest from fossil fuels with sit-ins. But critics say divestment is the wrong tactic.

A group of seniors in Mobile, Ala., wants coal ash from a power plant moved to a lined landfill. They worry the toxic ash could leak into Mobile Bay.

Seven years after Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis, the first non-European pontiff is under attack from traditionalists who think he's leading Catholics astray.

Justin Trudeau is the 51-year-old scion of one of Canada's most famous politicians. Sophie Trudeau is a former model and TV host. Together, they brought star power to the prime minister's office.

Scientists racing to protect coral amid an ocean heat wave blistering reefs off South Florida got some rare good news this month. Some of the rescued corals made babies in their lab.