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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to astronomer Jackie Faherty about Monday's supermoon. It will be the closest the moon has been to Earth since 1948.

Some unlikely allies in Nashville have united to expunge the record of a man convicted of a so-called "sodomy" law in 1995. His record has been cleared, but charges against 41 men have come to light.

Six writers won an award Wednesday night including Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad for fiction. Ibram X. Kendi won in nonfiction and Daniel Borzutzky in poetry.

"The scope of this tragedy is tremendous," Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said.

New rules, new reviews, and new funding for young, low-income children.

A Russian Soyuz space capsule touched down in Kazakhstan on Sunday morning local time, delivering Kate Rubins, Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi safely back to Earth.

In some corners, it's being panned like so much scampi. Others say they can't wait to buy a team jersey. An anti-shrimp petition has been started.

Stargazers, get ready for something spectacular on Thursday. The annual Perseid meteor shower, already one of the most reliably impressive celestial events, promises to be especially good this year.

Questions about Melania Trump's immigration history in the U.S. have surfaced this week. Trump says she has been in full compliance with U.S. immigration laws. But some immigration experts question whether she had the proper visas while working as a model.

Donald Trump won the White House with huge backing from small town America and those who felt left behind. Now that he's president, can Trump help them for the next four years and beyond?