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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Saudi activist Manal al-Sharif. She drove across the U.S. to bring attention to the state of women's rights in Saudi Arabia.

Ernesta Jefferson always liked telling stories. She started scribbling down her own experiences several years ago while in drug treatment. “You just have nothing to do but think… what you’ve been through, what you going through, just life period,” Jefferson said. Her reflections took her back to when she was 15 years old in a romantic relationship. At that time, she didn’t know about warning signs of abuse, like a partner “not wanting you hanging with your family,” she said. Even after the abuse became physical, she denied it to her family.

People gathered in cities across the country on Friday to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant parents and children at the Southern border.

The White House press secretary was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant Friday. Earlier this week, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House adviser Stephen Miller were heckled at restaurants.

Despite gridlock in Washington, D.C., more than 1,500 military personnel and volunteers at a Colorado Air Force base will be hard at work Christmas Eve, tracking Santa and answering children's calls.

Para leer en español, desplazar hacia abajo. The new Esperanza Latino Center of Northern Kentucky in Covington aims to make it easier for the Latino...

The incident began around 4 p.m. just outside the city of Florence as deputies tried to serve a search warrant. Authorities identified a suspect and say he is in custody.

Pope Francis is meeting with U.S. archbishops Thursday about the sex abuse crisis and in particular the accusations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, formerly the archbishop of Washington, D.C.

Fifty nominated books now remain in contention for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's literature — and, in a fresh twist to the annual slate, translated literature.

Many residents of North Carolina have gone from waiting for the storm to strike, to waiting for the rains to pass — and now, to bracing for more catastrophic floods.