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The rights of transgender individuals are fast becoming the next legal frontier. Here in the Twin Cities, Unit 5 schools amended its policies to better…

The new Lincoln exhibit in Bloomington explores the 16th president's twin cities connections to one of the biggest historical events in the US. Go with…

Muslim minorities in the northwestern region are targets of a sweeping security operation. Officials say most residents have been returned to society, but relatives say many are sentenced to prison.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with San Jose Councilmember Raul Peralez about one victim of Wednesday's shooting at a rail yard in Northern California.

A 1900 hurricane that left at least 6,000 people dead has had a long-lasting impact on Galveston, Texas. Paul Burka, a Galveston native who is senior executive editor of Texas Monthly, tells Scott Simon about the storm.

As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin's Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on snow and ice harder to predict.

A group of Black residents in Portland, Ore., is suing the city and a hospital for displacing them more than 50 years ago. They say an urban renewal plan amounted to confiscation of their homes.

The Feldman Ecopark in the hard-hit city of Kharkiv has lost many animals and even several staff members to Russian shelling in the past month. It's now trying to evacuate as many animals as possible.

Protesters in Seattle have taken over a six-block area near the police department's East Precinct. They are calling it an "autonomous zone."

For National Poetry Month, young poet Emily Moore talks about how she got into poetry and why poetry is still relevant. She teaches English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares and The Yale Review. In 2004, she received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.