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The Planet Money newsletter rounds up some new economics studies.

NPR spoke with 30 small groups of people around the country about what they'd want other people to understand about their community — and what they want to understand about others

The Latino vote could be decisive in this year's election. The largely Puerto Rican population in Pennsylvania has deep ties to Democrats, making efforts to engage those communities key for the party.

Fosbury stunned the sports world with a backwards flop over the high jump bar at the Mexican Olympics in 1968. He won gold, and invented a new jumping style still used today.

When you think of Coachella, you probably picture the festival. But there's much more to know about the place it calls home.

WGLT's partnership with students at Normal Community High School lead in part to this story — about trends in fusion food at restaurants in Bloomington-Normal.

The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.

In this encore presentation of For the Record, NPR's Rachel Martin looks at the last contested convention: the 1976 GOP meeting in Kansas City. Ronald Reagan nearly denied Gerald Ford the nomination.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mouaz Moustafa of the non-profit Syrian Emergency Task Force about the dramatic toppling of the Assad regime, as Moustafa prepares to fly back to his home city, Damascus.

As ICE immigration enforcement intensifies across the country, a Supreme Court ruling permits racial profiling as grounds for immigration stops.