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Many states that restricted abortion promised some people would be able to get abortions in certain circumstances, such as pregnancy resulting from rape. How often are exceptions for rape granted?

For Jewish American voters in Michigan it's been a difficult year. Monday marks a year since Hamas attacked Israel. In Detroit, Rabbi Ariana Silverman guides her community through this dark time.

Defense lawyers say Holmes believed the company could screen for hundreds of diseases with just a finger prick of blood, a pledge that attracted millions of dollars in investment.

The unanimous decision by the European Union, agreed to on Monday, was sparked by growing outrage over the devastation in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war.

Witnesses say a burst of gunfire has rung out in the Philippine Senate where authorities have tried to arrest a senator who is wanted by the ICC.

With motor vehicle traffic fatalities rising, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hoboken Director of Transportation and Parking Ryan Sharp on how Hoboken, N.J., has had zero traffic deaths in four years.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson about his organization's Out of Bounds campaign that draws a connection between Black student athletes and voting rights.

Despite tensions between the Vatican and Israel's government over the Gaza war, some Jews and Christians living in Israel are trying to build trust between their communities.

Periods of sweltering temperatures like the current global heat wave seem to drive up civil conflicts. But why? To find out, researchers put thousands of people in hot rooms - with surprising results.

Russia's news agency Tass is reporting a plane crash. And that among the passengers listed on the flight: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief who kicked off a mutiny two months ago.