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John Rzeznik on the Goo Goo Dolls' latest album 'Chaos in Bloom'

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to John Rzeznik, frontman and guitarist of Goo Goo Dolls, about the band's latest album, "Chaos in Bloom."

William Simpson with a 2-year-old Appaloosa colt near the Soda Mountain Wilderness area, straddling the Oregon and California border, in July 2022.

Preventing wildfire with the Wild Horse Fire Brigade

William Simpson wants to deploy the wild horses across public lands, to live and graze — and ultimately, prevent the worst wildfires.

Elizabeth Banks was drawn to 40-year-old's coming-of-age story in timely 'Call Jane'

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with actress Elizabeth Banks about her new movie Call Jane, based on a real-life underground network that provided access to safe abortions in the Chicago area.

Security personnel wait for voters outside the Leon County Supervisor of Elections office on Nov. 3, 2020, in Tallahassee, Fla.

Ahead of Election Day, U.S. agencies warn of potential attacks by extremists

Law enforcement officials are warning of potential attacks against election officials, political candidates, religious minorities and others.

Olha Abakumova, an opera singer from western Ukraine, came to the U.S. with her daughter. (Her husband was not able to migrate.) Olha brought her most treasured sheet music for Ukrainian arias. "They connect me with my motherland, culture and my roots," she says. "When I'm singing, I see pictures in front of my eyes," she says. "The words and music move through me and take me back to Ukraine."

PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?

We asked refugees around the world to tell us of a memento they brought to connect them to their old life even as they embarked on a new and uncertain future.

Student organizations demonstrate in Kolkata on Oct. 20, protesting in response to the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran.

In Iran, women are protesting the hijab. In India, they're suing to wear it

India's Hindu conservatives are championing Iran's female Muslim protesters. But they oppose Muslim students in southern India who are fighting for the right to wear the hijab in schools.

Miles Hatfield at his Kentucky home, which he had to abandon after it was flooded by runoff from an old coal mine.

How big coal companies avoid cleaning up their messes

A Bloomberg News/NPR investigation found that large U.S. coal companies used bankruptcy and asset transfers to move old mines to shaky new owners, putting at risk federally mandated land reclamation.

A voter places a ballot in an election voting drop box in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday.

Group can monitor Arizona ballot drop boxes, a U.S. judge has ruled

Law enforcement has been alarmed by reports of people, including some who were masked and armed, watching 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County and rural Yavapai County as midterm elections near.

Police tape is seen in front of the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on October 28 in San Francisco, California. Pelosi's husband, Paul, was violently attacked in their home by an intruder.

Dispatcher's 'intuition' may have saved Paul Pelosi, San Francisco's police chief says

An intruder broke into the couple's San Francisco home early on Friday and attacked Paul Pelosi, who is now recovering at hospital. The speaker was not at home during the assault.

A high school newspaper in Nebraska was shut down after it published LGBTQ stories

In Grand Island, Neb., the school district eliminated a high school journalism program after students published an issue of the school paper with op-eds about LGBTQ rights. Now the ACLU is involved.

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