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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alec MacGillis, reporter for ProPublica, about how court closures may have affected crime rates during pandemic shutdowns.

Four years of Russia's all-out war on Ukraine have transformed not only Ukrainian cities but also how modern warfare is waged, in the first of this two-part story from Kherson.

Residents accuse the largely white state government of neglecting the needs of a city that's 82% Black. White flight in the 1970s devastated the tax base, posing a major challenge to any solution.

Mudbound follows two families — one white and one black — just before, during and after World War II. Rees says her experiences growing up in Nashville, Tenn., in the 1980s informed her new film.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright predicts that the largest "red" state in the union will eventually move into the "blue" column — and change the nation's politics in the process.

Ukrainian authorities report multiple missile strikes in Lviv. Jerusalem is seeing ongoing violence. And, Philadelphia reinstates its indoor mask mandate.

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the first female mayor in Freetown in years, is trying to clean up the perpetual mess caused by rain and garbage — a first step in her plan to revive the beleaguered city.

One of the most influential thought-leaders in urban development — Chuck Marohn from Strong Towns — is offering some words of wisdom to his acolytes in Bloomington-Normal.

Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow dissects Trump's acquisition of the Taj Mahal casino/hotel, which went into bankruptcy a year after it opened.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing; President linton, Janet Reno, a rescue worker, and Oklahoma residents commenting on the ragic incident.