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Tom Kirk doesn’t view his day job as co-owner of Henson Disposal as related to his visual art, apart from the inside look he gets at how much people throw away. Kirk has spent the past several years building large-scale art pieces from discarded metal, gears and machinery, and he recently expanded to a spot in downtown Bloomington where a concrete lady now sits beneath the Main Street bridge.

The Normal Town Council will take up a proposed $158 million budget next week. It's slightly larger than the preliminary budget that came out in January with the $251,000 increase coming from the addition of a third town attorney and an increase in sewer equipment and vehicle money.

What if you could sum up human existence with three concepts: losing, finding and the word and?

Africans and South Asians studying and working in Ukraine have had added difficulty leaving the country because of discriminatory treatment by local authorities.

Voters head to the polls in Texas for the state's primary in the first midterm election of 2022. A governor's race is on the ballot, as is the second-largest congressional delegation in the U.S.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Frank Bruni about his new book The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found, a memoir about the author partially losing his eyesight.

Illinois State University professor and former BBC journalist Dr. Ali Riaz says institutional racism has clouded some Western coverage of the war in Eastern Europe, in particular presenting its refugees more sympathetically than their Syrian, Middle Eastern and North African counterparts in years prior.

Dr. Oleg Godik is treating injured children in Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which is under siege by the Russian military.

The Russian invasion has sparked an interest in books about Ukraine. There are many out there. If you're not sure where to get started, we've got you covered.

A truckers' convoy inspired by what happened in Canada in February is rolling across America toward Washington, D.C. They're protesting vaccines even as states are lessening pandemic restrictions.