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Abortion rights demonstrators hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

What people said outside the Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade was overturned

Demonstrators from both sides of the abortion issue gathered outside the Supreme Court after the justices overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.

A Russian serviceman patrols Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station on May 1. A series of exchanges in recent weeks has made conditions at the plant more dangerous.

Here's just how close the war in Ukraine has come to Europe's largest nuclear plant

Satellite images and social media analyzed by NPR show attacks have hit structures around the plant, coming dangerously close to causing a nuclear disaster.

New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from midwife Marie-JosÃ©e Miezan. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms â and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies.

There's a global call for kangaroo care. Here's what it looks like in the Ivory Coast

Can the warmth of a parent's chest be a boon to babies, especially premature births? In the 1970s, Colombian researchers found it did. The technique has gone global. Ivory Coast is the latest convert.

Venezuelans create community around break dance in Colombia

Every year, dozens of Venezuelan migrants arrive in Colombia seeking to deconstruct their way of conceiving breaking.

"Wrecked shrimp boats and other vessels littered the waterfront on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, FL, one week after Hurricane Ian made landfall.

Shutting an agency managing sprawl might have put more people in Hurricane Ian's way

More than a decade ago, growth in Florida was managed under a statewide agency that provided checks and balances to prevent sprawl and protect natural resources. Then state leaders closed it.

Charlottesville activist Don Gathers reflects on five years since white supremacists terrorized his hometown — "all the hatefulness and evilness that transpired here."

The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'

The rally by white supremacists protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee left one counter-protester dead and several injured.

<em>Renaissance, </em>Beyoncé's seventh full-length solo album, mines a liberating history of dance music, from Donna Summer-sampling disco to modern Chicago house.

Revolutionary Fun: Why we can't stop talking about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance'

The era-defining star's seventh album sparks a conversation about the infinite possibilities of dance music, the difference between fun and pleasure and why disco is always political.

Harvey Matthews was born in the River Road community. He stands with Macedonia Baptist Church First Lady, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, also president of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition. She has led the fight to preserve and prevent further desecration of the cemetery.

Slavery descendants fight to memorialize a cemetery in Maryland

Development has forced many historically Black communities around the country to uproot and disperse. Cemeteries often remain the only proof that those communities existed.

(Clockwise from top left) Seth Gilliam in <em>The Walking Dead</em>, Letitia Wright in <em>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</em>, Brice Gonzalez and George Lopez in <em>Lopez vs. Lopez</em>, <em></em>Susan Sarandon in <em>Monarch</em>, Harry Styles and Florence Pugh in <em>Don't Worry Darling </em>and Dwayne Johnson in <em>Black Adam</em>

These are the new movies and TV shows we can't wait to watch this fall

Our critics' guide lets you search by genre and where to watch — whether on your couch or in the theater. Here's what NPR critics are looking forward to after a busy blockbuster summer.

Fireflies outside Pine Plains, N.Y., in June 2021. "I still can't quite believe that I get to see things like this happen in real time/real life and then get to experience it in a completely new way, all over again, when the images get built," Mauney said.

These photos are shedding new light on how fireflies interact with the world

In the summer, from dusk until the moon rises, photographer Pete Mauney finds his photos' subjects along quiet stretches of highway, in hidden pockets of woods and under power lines.

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