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Supreme Court rejects challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone. Elon Musk wins back his $44.9 billion Tesla pay package in a shareholder vote. White House moves to secure rural health care systems.

Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.

President Biden plans to provide protection from deportation to certain migrants. Russian President Putin makes a rare trip to North Korea. FEMA pressured to treat extreme heat as a major disaster.

When authorities find wildlife that are being illegally trafficked, at ports or airports, the animals are often in terrible shape. Sick, starved, distressed. A pilot project in Southern California aims to get seized wildlife immediate care.

Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Brian Mann explores the potential reasons for the surprise drop in overdose deaths across the country, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James about his new HBO series set in Jamaica. It is called "Get Millie Black."

Owner of this business says she’s on a mission to show the richness and diversity of Latin American food, one empanada at a time

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR producer Marc Rivers about the 50th anniversary of The Godfather Part II and what makes a good movie sequel.

New reports from Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors Without Borders document a "massive influx" of sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. What can be done to stop it?