On this week's episode of "Sights + Sounds Picks," Oakland author Aaron Hundley gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian cruise missile hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The ...

1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks. 1858 – The ...

A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school.

The Justice Department says cities and states risk legal action if they fail to comply with federal immigration law. Democratic leaders are pushing back, saying their policies break no laws.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

More than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 global pandemic are walking into elementary schools across the ...

The National Guard has been deployed many times historically. Experts say the president's decision to deploy the Guard as a ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Ukrainian Veronika Osintseva about her remarkable survival of the deadliest attack on Kyiv since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office is posting over-the-top social media content that mirrors President Trump's style. NPR asks a media and psychology expert about its effectiveness.

Interactions between community members and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers turned violent at the federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco this morning.

New data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that most of the United States’ water supply is contaminated with ...