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LGBTQ rights advocates call for state Rep. Cheryl Helmer to be formally censured after she publicly said she didn't want to share the women's restrooms at the Statehouse with a transgender colleague.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill explicitly prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates, a ban experts say is the first of its kind in the nation.

The singer-songwriter says her sophomore album, i don't know who needs to hear this..., is a kind of altar for her feelings, made by bringing other "deep feelers" into the studio with her.

Seven comic actresses star in a new play by a 28-year-old up-and-coming playwright.

T. Kingfisher treats source material like a buffet; the result feels like a cozy but still perilous D&D adventure, full of found-family, second chances, and winks to the folklore that inspired it.

Her supporters and independent legal experts consider her prosecution an unjust move to discredit Suu Kyi and legitimize the military's 2021 seizure of power.

Supporters and lawyers of the man said he had an IQ of 69 and was intellectually disabled, and that the execution of a mentally ill person was prohibited under international human rights law.

Countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia are counting more cases of vaccine-derived polio. Now there's a likely U.S. case. Researchers are looking for ways to stop it.

The state-run center for people with severe intellectual disabilities has long been the largest employer in Mills County. The announcement of its closure means the prospect of relocation for many of its families.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Michael R. Jackson, a composer, playwright and lyricist who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his musical A Strange Loop. The musical is opening on Broadway Tuesday.