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Kim Potter, a white former police officer is expected to testify Friday that she mistakenly used her gun and killed Daunte Wright, a Black man, when she really meant to use her Taser.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Greenstone, professor and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago the impact of the rising cost of carbon on climate policy.

NPR celebrates its 50th anniversary remembering other events in 1971. The band T. Rex overhauled their musical style and released Electric Warrior, an album that became the cornerstone of glam rock.

The Jazz Night In America producer shares her favorite albums and songs of 2021.

In three weeks, the latest coronavirus variant has spread to at least 36 U.S. states. Colleges are among the institutions taking steps to avoid new outbreaks.

The Fed is moving toward raising interest rates next year. The latest coronavirus variant is proving to be highly transmissible. We examine the impact of Kentucky's tornadoes on children.

A new study from the University of Hong Kong offers preliminary information that could explain why this new coronavirus variant may be more transmissible.

In fall 2020, NPR reported that enrollment numbers in public schools were dropping. A year later, has that changed? In many places, the answer is an emphatic "No."

A bipartisan group from the United States Congress, just returned from Ukraine, are calling for the Biden administration to step up weapons shipments to Kyiv to deter a Russian invasion.

About 75% of the deaths were people above the age of 65.