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Akron resident Na'kia Crawford was shot and killed at a red light on June 14th.

Morning Headlines: Funeral Set for Na'kia Crawford; Ohio High School Sports Start Practicing Again

Here are your morning headlines for Monday, June 22: Funeral Set for Na’kia Crawford, 2 Suspects Still at Large Court-ordered team to review Cleveland...

Analysis: Who's Still Standing In Cincinnati's Mayoral Race

Aftab Pureval, Cecil Thomas, David Mann. Those are your top tier candidates in the May 4 Cincinnati mayoral primary. Not necessarily in that order. And...

In this image released by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., in the Atlantic Ocean from the shooting down of a Chinese high-altitude balloon, for transport to the FBI, at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va., on Feb. 10.

How a Chinese 'spy balloon' prompted the U.S. to scour the skies

The U.S. and China have traded fiery allegations of extensive aerial surveillance programs since the U.S. shot down a Chinese balloon on Feb. 4. Here's a look at what's happened so far.

President Biden has seen his approval rating tick back up some after last month's low, with 45% now approving and 46% disapproving.

Biden's Approval Rating Recovers Some From Last Month's Low, An NPR Poll Finds

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds that 45% of U.S. adults approve of the job President Biden is doing, while 46% disapprove. That's a little better than his numbers last month.

Carla Hall says her new cookbook is all about celebrating home-cooked meals as a way of bringing people together. "We're all connected through food, and the dishes in this book show that we're more alike than different," she writes. "Sure, I grew up with grits, but it's served as polenta in Italy."

In Kitchens Around The World, Comfort Foods Bring Us Together

Chef Carla Hall invites us over to make spanakopita, one of her favorite Greek dishes. Her new cookbook is all about celebrating the way home-cooked meals unite us — no matter where we're from.

Classic tuna noodle casserole is an often maligned yet much beloved hot dish.

Tuna Noodle Casserole, A Hot Dish In Need Of An Update, Gets One

Food writer Ellen Brown has enlivened this often-maligned, yet much-beloved hot dish with dried porcini mushrooms and mozzarella cheese in a new book.

Maj. Gen. Janeen Birckhead serves as Maryland's 31st adjutant general — making her the only Black woman who leads a state military in the U.S. Here, Birckhead sits inside NPR's studios for an interview with NPR's Jonathan Franklin.

She's currently the only Black woman leading a state military. Here's how it happened

Maj. Gen. Janeen Birckhead of Maryland only became a soldier to help pay for college. Three decades later, she's risen to the top military position in Maryland, leading a force of 4,600 soldiers.

Eminem on stage during the 2024 NFL Draft on April 25, 2024 in Detroit, Mich.

Eminem breaks Taylor Swift’s 12-week run atop the album chart

Every album the rapper has released since 2000 has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) extends his streak. Also: Shaboozey returns to the top of the singles chart.

Spectators watch as fireworks erupt over the Washington Monument on July 4, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

The explosive history of fireworks, from ancient China to Revolutionary America

Pyrotechnic amusements from sparklers to Roman candles have long been a staple of celebrations in the U.S. and beyond, helping to mark national holidays, sporting events and more.

Remembering Armero: Colombia's town buried in tragedy

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

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