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Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Quaranteeth Fairy, Dr. John and Dashboard Confessional

Long after the fall of ISIS, Yazidis are now returning to the ruined towns of their homeland. It's been six years since ISIS launched its genocide against the religious minority in Sinjar.

Emma Hurt of NPR member station WABE joins Scott Simon to discuss how voters in Georgia are feeling ahead of Election Day.

David Greene talks to retired Admiral James Stavridis, former supreme allied commander for NATO, about the potential consequences of the president's plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria.

The Black contralto put European art music and African-American spirituals in parity — and in her art, paved the way for generations of singers after her, both inside and outside classical music.

For the first time, Medicare penalties against hospitals with too many avoidable patient safety complications include fines tied to the prevalence of two types of bacteria resistant to drugs.

Creators of the HBO Max series Harley Quinn said executives blocked a scene where Batman performs oral sex on Catwoman, sparking a social media conversation about censorship of female pleasure.

In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.

NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with Kenny Gorelick, best known as Kenny G, and director Penny Lane about her new documentary about the soprano saxophonist, Listening to Kenny G.

Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics tells us more about how prisons were affected early on in the pandemic. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with researcher Wendy Sawyer about the new data.