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Franke told the judge that she would not argue for a shorter sentence before she stood to thank local police officers, doctors and social workers for being the "angels" who saved her children.

The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.

The 30th anniversary of the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza at the National Western Stock Show is a celebration of pageantry and cultural heritage.

On Sunday, Guatemala's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt died at 91. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with professor Victoria Sanford of the City University of New York about Rios Montt's role in the Guatemalan civil war, and the troubled legacy he leaves behind.

NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money investigates how the fees and fines that make up city budgets disproportionately target low-income communities and communities of color.

In the school district's guitar program, students learn much more than music — there's a lot of life skills rolled into each lesson.

Mexicans fleeing what they call unprecedented violence say the U.S. is rushing to send them back to Mexico without granting them due process to present their asylum claims.

The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.

The comic has made a career out of saying exactly what she thinks. She tells NPR's Scott Simon, "I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.' " Her new book is Diary of a Mad Diva.

Attorney General William Barr's decision to deny bond hearings to asylum-seekers is the latest twist in a long legal battle. Immigrant rights advocates recently won a big victory in federal court.