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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Emory University Professor Andra Gillespie about Georgia's 6th Congressional district race between Lucy McBath and incumbent Karen Handel.

Inspired over the decades by the farm-to-table movement of Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, Dorsey Barger has pursued her businesses as a zealot. Barger’s East Side Cafe in Austin, TX, and now urban farm are part of her mission to improve the way we eat, and the way we grow food.

In 2020, there were more than 6,000 United States veteran suicides. This averaged out to almost 17 people per day. Veteran suicide rates have trended downward but they still take their own lives 1.5 times higher than the general population.

Bexar County officials expect it to take some time to prosecute Shane James Jr. since he's being held in custody pending trial in Travis County and must face capital murder charges there first.

Texas lawmakers could once again consider legalizing casinos in the state's 2021 legislative session — a move supporters say could help fill a $4.6 billion hole in Texas' budget amid the pandemic-induced recession. What are the pros and cons? Is a gambling "sin tax" enough to meaningfully rehab state finances?

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi female activist, to five years and eight months in prison. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with her sister Alia al-Hathloul.

For the first time in 22 years, Mississippi man Curtis Flowers will be allowed to leave state custody. His case was the subject of the second season of the podcast In The Dark.

Every day it seems that Donald Trump’s legal troubles are increasing. The former president, who is seeking re-election, is under criminal indictments for stealing and hording government secret documents. And there are the charges of falsifying business records for the porn star payoffs. Now Trump could be indicted for January 6th—trying to keep himself in power using fake electors. Is all this political retaliation? What are the facts?

July 29, 1910 in Slocum, Texas started off like any other Friday in this rural East Texas community – but before the day was over one of the worst racial…

The Department of Justice has released new numbers on the rates of sexual assault for college-age women.