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Milwaukee has often had visits from presidents of both parties who find it a convenient point of contact with voters proud to be part of either the middle class or the working class.

Many residents had just finished a morning of festivities and were leaving church in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, when a Russian missile struck the city's center, heavily damaging a theater building.

We asked photographers around the world to make pictures of how the locals cope with this year's record heat. They created some really cool images.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with musician and rapper Mick Jenkins about creative freedom and his latest album, "The Patience."

NPR's Scott Simon talks with writer Edgar Gomez about stumbling upon a shop selling Walter Mercado's capes. The celebrated Puerto Rican astrologer died nearly four years ago.

Bats fly at night and they're hard to hear, so counting them is tricky. Researchers use volunteers and some innovative technology to monitor bat populations.

David Álvarez's twist on traditional myths from Mesoamerica is about rivalry, jealousy and making amends. What started as a wordless picture book now has text by author David Bowles.

India and Russia are sending landers to spots near the south pole, which has water ice that might one day be mined to make rocket fuel.

NPR's Scott Simon ponders stadium naming rights: how relatively inexpensive it is for companies to link their brands to major league ballparks and football fields.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with director Steve James — known for "Hoop Dreams" — about his new film, "A Compassionate Spy." It's about a Manhattan Project scientist who shared secrets with the Soviets.