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In this week's StoryCorps, a single mother of five recalls what happened when she agreed to take care of three more children after her friend died of cancer.

The final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended Thursday night with its first spell-off. The winner is 14-year-old Harini Logan of San Antonio, Texas.

The Turkish government is asking that the country be called by its Turkish name, a change which the United Nations has now adopted.

The hot housing market may tempt older homeowners looking to cash in, but obstacles to finding a new place to live are forcing some of them to stay put.

Nearly three weeks after the mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo and 10 days after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, New York state lawmakers passed a sweeping gun control package.

The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. businesses added 390,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%. The unusually tight labor market is adding to inflation worries.

The White House says babies, toddlers and other very young children could finally start getting vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as June 21.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with defense policy expert Andrew Exum about whether the U.S. and its allies will continue to endure the economic cost of supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression.

Charitable gun raffles have proliferated in recent years as fundraisers for law enforcement and civic organizations. But recent mass shootings have caused some organizers to postpone or cancel.

In 2021, Zoe Turner survived a flood in which 20 of her neighbors died. With the help of Damon Mitchell, she recorded a diary about the flooding which happened during her senior year of high school.