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On July 1, 1916, nearly 20,000 British soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in northern France. The battle went on for months, and more than a million men were killed or injured.

John Roberts has shaped rulings that upset conservatives but left room for those on the right to prevail in later cases.

This year, critic Craig Morgan Teicher says American poetry has become too big for just one person to cover, so he's invited five colleagues to bring their own perspectives to our 2021 poetry preview.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Susan Glasser of The New Yorker and Eliana Johnson of The Washington Free Beacon about impeachment and the political implications.

"They have the right to be searched for, and we have the right to search for them," says the mother of a man who has been missing since 2013. Relatives say the government does little to help.

An overdose is a wake-up call for many people with addiction. So why aren't patients being offered medications that could keep them from looking for the next dangerous hit of drugs?

Disputes over LGBT rights and religion's role in public life have derailed a previously non-partisan movement.

About 400 parents and kids load up their trays with dinner from Swensons and settle into the I Promise School cafeteria and gym for a quick guide to managing money, a pitch for flu shots and a student performance on messages hidden in old spirituals. These kinds of family gatherings happen once a month and at least 80 percent of the I Promise families participate, according to Nicole Hassen, the Akron Public Schools liaison to the LeBron James Family Foundation.

John Nixon has done both briefing and debriefing, so we'll see what he knows about underwear briefs. Originally broadcast April 29, 2017.

GOP-led legislatures in dozens of states are moving to change election laws in ways that could make it harder to vote, for example, by reducing early voting days or limiting access to voting by mail.