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Detroit police raided an illegal after-hours club when a brick was thrown and the city ignited into five days of rioting. Many African-Americans see it as rebellion against decades of harassment.

The City of Springfield’s inspector general will investigate claims of mistreatment of clients at the Winter Warming Center, Mayor Jim Langfelder...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to University of Oklahoma professor Andrea Benjamin about why she wants the human rights commission to be reinstated. The previous commission was dissolved in 1996.

Peabody-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney tackles a rather intangible subject in his latest film: light pollution. Host David Greene speaks with Cheney about The City Dark and what people lose when they can no longer see the stars.

Areas of Fallujah were leveled in two huge battles 20 years ago when the U.S. invaded Iraq. ISIS took it over and was driven out in 2016. Today, it is a very different city, but the memories remain.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Reuven Blau, reporter for The City news website, about violence between inmates and guards at New York City jails.

Dmytro Veselov and other Ukrainians in Kyiv are taking up arms to defend the city from the Russian invasion.

According to a staff memo to the city council, the city cites an FDA advisory that kratom can cause liver toxicity, seizures and substance use disorder. It’s also been linked to deaths in rare cases, primarily in combination with other drugs.

In Rio Grande City, a small town on the Texas border with Mexico, one barber named Alberto Escobedo has earned the reputation for giving customers a performance of Pavarotti along with their haircut.

The unexploded ordnance, described as a 500 kg German bomb by local authorities, has prompted the cancellation of all flights on Monday from the airport. The bomb was found in the River Thames.