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The Twin Cities area has the largest Somali population in America. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Minneapolis Councilman Abdi Warsame about young people arrested for allegedly conspiring to join ISIS.

A climatologist says as the climate continues to warm, extreme rainfall will become more common.

The missing persons toll has dropped after one person was found alive. Residents who escaped the flames that destroyed some 1,000 homes returned to sort through what was left.

Considering that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, there are a lot of questions about how — and whether — states and jurisdictions would enforce strict abortion laws.

Pandemic restrictions for asylum seekers are set to expire Thursday night. Communities along the border are seeing huge crowds as migrants line up to apply for authorized status in the U.S.

For the observation of the federal holiday, we hear from Nathan Connolly, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, about the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff read it.

The string of attacks on the weirdness-loving Texas capital served to confirm that Austin rapidly has grown past the small town it once was, and surfaced memories of past dark incidents and attitudes.

While visiting jails and prisons across the country, author Alisa Roth witnessed mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement, wearing restrictive jumpsuits and receiving very limited therapy.

The U.S. surgeon general has recommended that naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, be widely available to consumers. But there are several barriers to consumers' ability to acquire it.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden about the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russian meddling in the election.