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It's the hectic final few days of the Missouri legislative session and abortion is one issue on everyone's mind. Republican lawmakers want to fortify restrictions, making some voters very concerned.

The Passenger and Stella Maris -- the author's first two books in more than a decade — seem to want to decode the meaning of life, both as standalone novels and together as intertwined works.

Back in Somalia, Abdi Nor Iftin was nicknamed "Abdi the American," and his love of this country put him in danger — but then he got a visa to come here. Iftin has a new memoir out: Call Me American.

The power outages from superstorm Sandy stranded some people in the upper stories of New York's public housing complexes. Marianne McCune ventured up the dark stairs of the La Guardia Houses on the Lower East Side, and found 87-year-old Margaret Maynard toughing it out.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jorge, a resident of Caracas, Venezuela, about the political and economic chaos throughout the country.

Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.

Afghans livings outside of Afghanistan are fearful as the U.S. withdraws and the Taliban gain more territory.

Ruby Ibarra describes her art as unfiltered, a quality that shines through in her band's 2019 Tiny Desk submission.

There's nothing quite like the crowd at a professional wrestling match.Sure, fans are wearing T-shirts for the wrestlers they love, and they're screaming…

Kelsey Snell speaks with actor Grace Kaufman about "The Sky is Everywhere," a colorful new film exploring themes of grief and loss.