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Temperatures are climbing this week and public health officials are advising people to take precautions to protect themselves and their children from heat-related illnesses.

President Biden will go to Israel and Saudi Arabia in July — a trip where he wants to work on security, economic and energy issues.

In David Santos Donaldson's debut novel, a young gay Black man gets some supernatural relationship advice from the Black lover of a famous white British writer, both of them long dead.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer asks National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers executive director Lisa Wayne how her organization is gearing up for the criminalization of abortion.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper had signed three bills into law, including one that increases arson punishments and another that addresses federally approved medicines that contain marijuana or its active ingredient.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.

A Massachusetts elementary school welcomes COVID-sniffing dogs. The animals were trained to detect COVID based on research showing that dogs could find a fungus on trees before the trees got sick.

Fans who discovered the Swedish singer's vulnerable voice on a Twilight movie soundtrack might be surprised to hear her more provocative sound on the new Wounded Rhymes.

The Louvin Brothers, Ira and Charlie, were considered one of the all-time great country-music duos. Fresh Air remembers Charlie, who died Wednesday, with highlights from a 1996 interview.

Washburn almost left the U.S. for China, where she'd planned to spend the rest of her days practicing law. As luck would have it, though, her growing fascination with learning the banjo led her to an unlikely recording career. Washburn's new album is titled City of Refuge.