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People of the Jewish faith are seeking atonement during Yom Kippur, but one congregation is giving the holiday a new twist. Members are using social media to tweet for forgiveness. Host Michel Martin speaks with Cantor Debbi Ballard to find out how the process works.

Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting transgender people.

The Pentagon has lifted its ban on transgender people serving in the military. The news has been a long time coming for transgender Army Drill Sergeant Kennedy Ochoa.

Bob Dole, who died Sunday, will lie in state Thursday at the U.S. Capitol — acknowledging decades of service as a GOP senator, vice presidential candidate and presidential nominee.

U.S.-Russia summits have ignited, and defused, global crises. There was the time the U.S. Secret Service found Boris Yeltsin in his underwear, slurring his words and craving a pizza.

The Trump administration is tapping several other agencies to help deport and arrest those without legal status — a novel step that is prompting some pushback.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with jury consultant Julie Blackman about what the future holds for some of the jurors who served in former President Trump's hush money case.

Paris Davis' was among the first Black men to lead green berets. His service in Vietnam would earn him the medal of honor, only it took nearly 60 years for him to receive the award.

Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s office in New York said.

The Woolsey wildfire devastated most of Paramount Ranch's Hollywood heritage in 2018. Human-driven climate change is demanding difficult decisions about what to preserve in the rebuilding process.