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The city of Akron will hold its primary election in May, for the first time in decades. Last November, Akron voters approved a move from a September...

The Guatemalan child died late in the evening on Dec. 24 in Alamogordo, N.M. He's the second child to die in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody this month.

Boeing's CEO appears at the company's annual meeting Monday morning in Chicago. It's the first time he'll face shareholders since two fatal crashes involving the now-grounded 737 Max 8 passenger jet.

These women made some of the most significant music of the past century. They originated genres, broke political boundaries, nurtured generations of followers and in most cases, became icons.

Steve Inskeep talks to Peter Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, about the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 that involved a Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.

Bobby Carter is a leader on the Tiny Desk Concerts team for NPR Music. He's brought an ever growing roster of big names and emerging artists through NPR's HQ to squeeze behind the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen and record standout performances, including Usher, Mac Miller, Noname, Anderson.Paak and H.E.R.

Elissa Nadworny reports on all things college for NPR, following big stories like unprecedented enrollment declines, college affordability, the student debt crisis and workforce training. During the 2020-2021 academic year, she traveled to dozens of campuses to document what it was like to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. Her work has won several awards including a 2020 Gracie Award for a story about student parents in college, a 2018 James Beard Award for a story about the Chinese-American population in the Mississippi Delta and a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in innovation.

The dead, many of whom were memorialized by friends and family on social media, included a Pakistani exchange student and a substitute teacher

As NPR's Southwest correspondent based in Austin, Texas, John Burnett covers immigration, border affairs, Texas news and other national assignments. In 2018, 2019 and again in 2020, he won national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for continuing coverage of the immigration beat. In 2020, Burnett along with other NPR journalists, were finalists for a duPont-Columbia Award for their coverage of the Trump Administration's Remain in Mexico program. In December 2018, Burnett was invited to participate in a workshop on Refugees, Immigration and Border Security in Western Europe, sponsored by the RIAS Berlin Commission.

When these Kentucky students needed a subject for their podcast, they looked to the bright blue office around the corner, where their school's buildings and grounds team is based.