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North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its "fatal" nuclear attack capacity against its rivals.

South Korea says it will investigate hundreds of adoptions out of the country that may have involved fake records. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Kaomi Lee, one adoptee whose case is under review.

About six months after the Highland Park mass shooting, Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill to ban assault weapons.

Early this week, the leaders of Afghanistan declared that women could not attend university. Now there are fears the any education for girls is in jeopardy as some female teachers are sent home.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Codie Elaine Oliver about the joys of being a Black mother. Oliver is a host of The Mama's Den podcast.

Michael Walrond, Jr., senior pastor at First Corinthian Baptist Church, tells NPR's Scott Simon that his church hopes to repair the trauma institutionalized religion inflicted on LGBTQ communities.

From Something Good — Negro Kiss to Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Black cinema has long served as a form of resistance.

U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke returns to his ancestral village in southern China for the first time since his appointment. The Chinese-American was criticized as "a fake foreign devil who can't speak Chinese." But his humble behavior — flying economy, carrying his own bag — has won him many fans.

It's a simple mission that guides the volunteers on the No One Dies Alone team at Carle BroMenn Medical Center.

Statistically speaking, Kendra and Brian Cosom were unlikely candidates for marriage. The 2000 census reports nearly double the number of unmarried African-Americans as compared to whites. Marriage rates are even lower in low-income, black neighborhoods like theirs. Married a year, the couple is learning that staying together takes much more than love.