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Top Haitian-American community leaders in South Florida are pleading to President Donald Trump to reverse the administration’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants to prevent a humanitarian disaster.

The nation's top safety investigators concluded there were multiple systemic failures that led to a midair blowout during the flight of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet last year.

NPR's Michel Martin asks U.S.-Iranian relations expert Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the motivations behind Israeli airstrikes targeting the country's nuclear sites.

President-elect Donald Trump and his newest top-lieutenant, Elon Musk, have sent Washington scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, even before Trump takes office.

Organizers are hoping to put a spotlight on top female talent in the jazz genre with a specific focus on bringing new performers to Miami. In fact, one of the requirements for Amos Rozenberg and Manuel Molina of Melrose Media, the production house behind the festival, was that the musicians hadn’t played Miami.

Local officials in Florida's capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club. The Tallahassee City Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the deal Wednesday, despite vocal opposition from local residents and historians.

The war between the US, Israel and Iran is intensifying. NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Yossi Melman, who reports on Israeli intelligence, about the state of the conflict as it enters its fourth week.

Making his first appearance before Congress since the Trump administration went to war against Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced withering questioning from skeptical Democrats.

The Las Vegas Raiders selected Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza as their franchise quarterback with the top overall pick in Thursday night's NFL draft. Mendoza led Indiana to its first national championship. He watched the draft with family in Miami instead of attending in Pittsburgh. The Raiders hope Mendoza will revive a franchise with three Lombardi Trophies but no playoff wins since the 2002 season.

Opponents of the death penalty say Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has more authority than other states' top officials in approving death warrants, a factor driving the high number of executions.

Hillary Clinton needs to appear likable and trustworthy, while Bernie Sanders needs to appear presidential. Others need to make the case for why voters should give them a look.

Afghanistan is a mountainous land where mountain climbing is rare among men and virtually nonexistent among women. An American is now preparing young Afghan women to scale the country's highest peak.

Military officials, diplomats and analysts say a main purpose of the force is to ratchet up pressure on Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, as top figures in the Trump administration call him an illegitimate leader and accuse him of directing the actions of criminal gangs and drug cartels.

Negotiations between the White House and Republican leaders have reached a stalemate over how best to avoid going off the so-called fiscal cliff. Robert Kuttner, founder and co-director of the American Prospect, argues that the president should hold his ground in this debate, even if it means triggering the tax hikes and spending cuts.

Last week, more than 6 million jobless Americans sought unemployment benefits. NPR correspondents look at the rising economic fallout from COVID-19 — and the latest science and political news.

Demand for batteries has sent lithium prices soaring. But building new mines is controversial and time-consuming. So existing mines are hitting overdrive and boosting production as much as they can.

The hurricane, which smashed through the Florida Keys earlier Sunday, made landfall again at Marco Island and is churning its way north along Florida's northwest coast. It has weakened to Category 1.

Jeb Bush is (mostly) right when he says the number of people in poverty increased by 6 million under Obama. But that statistic is more complicated than you might think.

Nkechi Okoro Carroll is not a unicorn — but as one of the few very successful Black woman showrunners in television, she does stand out

Lachlan Murdoch, head of Fox News' parent company, is scheduled to be deposed Monday in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against the company.