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Approximately 400,000 people voted in person in Wisconsin after courts and GOP lawmakers rebuffed proposals to postpone the election or conduct it by mail.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the 100th anniversary of the Negro National League as a response to segregation in major league baseball.

"It is time to move the Statue and move forward," the 26th U.S. president's great-grandson says. It depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and a man of African descent on foot.

After several days of peaceful protest in the capital, the president says "everything is under perfect control." More than 5,000 guardsmen from Washington and 11 states had been called in.

"The happiness of Eid is in not hugging each other and not shaking hands this time over," said a leading Indian imam. "Eid is related to life and happiness and we have to give the same."

Peoria activist and mayoral candidate Chama St. Louis and the Peoria Community Bond Fund worked to bond four people charged in this week's civil unrest...

A brick factory that was key to building post-Civil War Atlanta used unpaid convict laborers. Now, some hope to block industrial development at the site and instead memorialize those mistreated there.

Typhoon Hagibus has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were mobilized across the country to rescue people after the storm made landfall on Saturday.

Spain is taking in more migrants than Greece or Italy — the first time that's happened since the crisis began in 2015. The numbers are expected to rise, and that's straining Spain's migrant services.

This week, we hear about a community once known as a "sundown town" because African Americans were warned to be out of the city limits by nightfall. It...