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NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss sports.

The man who killed four people in New York City had a history of mental health issues, including two commitments to treatment initiated by Las Vegas police. But legally, he was still allowed to buy guns.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $150 million in grants to train K-12 teachers in civics education, but what does nonpartisan civics look like in these hyper-partisan times?

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about what the U.S. staying in Venezuela for years might look like and the history of U.S. involvement in other countries.

Latino voters are the largest non-white voting demographic this year. But the pandemic has created new obstacles to registration in a community that has had a history of low voter turnout in the U.S.

Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.

The Trump administration placed a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds. Some people are not happy about it.

The attack is part of a long history of U.S. intervention in the region. NPR senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving joins NPR's Daniel Estrin to discuss.

The crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried has been tried and convicted of orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history, but little has changed for people who lost billions when FTX collapsed.

What should happen to the remains of Black bodies of a cemetery paved over and forgotten on Staten Island? This graveyard has the remains of Benjamin Prine, an enslaved man who later became a patriot.