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We hear from activists about Saturday's Voting Rights march in Washington, DC.

Ramadan this year falls in the height of summer when days are longest. Many observant Muslims are fasting 16 hours a day or longer, so their pre-dawn breakfast needs to be hydrating and satiating.

Scott Simon speaks with Dana Zzyym who says they are the first person to receive a passport with an 'X' gender marker.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada about the future of the filibuster and the legacy of former Majority Leader Harry Reid, who died last month.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with David Gaines, author of In Dylan Town: A Fan's Life, about the news that Bob Dylan will not attend the ceremony to collect his Nobel Prize in Literature.

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

Across the country, homes are beginning to take longer to sell, a sign that the hot real-estate market of the last decades is starting to cool. In the Boston metropolitan area, which has seen a faster appreciation of home values than most of the country, homes prices are not rising as fast they used to. Fred Thys of member station WBUR reports.

Florence Nightingale once warned about a major cruelty inflicted on sick people: unnecessary noise. And despite advances in medicine, researchers say today's hospitals are still as noisy as bus stations. But at Johns Hopkins Hospital, engineers are trying to create some peace and quiet.

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has confirmed layoffs are being considered as the electric automaker looks to “grow sustainably” in the face of a changing economic landscape.

The leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade throws into sharp relief the cloistered existence of the U.S. Supreme Court — and tensions with journalists who seek to pierce that veil.