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A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.

NPR's Noel King talks to freelance reporter Kimon de Greef about New York City's songbird competitions and why some people go as far as to try to smuggle finches into the U.S.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the racist real estate practices that ensured wealth accumulated along racial lines, even after housing discrimination became illegal.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with former NPR social media guru Andy Carvin about the way his realm came to affect the news business.

Facebook's oversight board has upheld its ban of the former president, which was put in place after a mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Fifty years ago, a chance encounter at a table-tennis tournament opened the door for warmer relations between the U.S. and China, back when China was mostly isolated from the West.

Turn-out was very low Tuesday. But voters renewed a regional special education millage in the Kalamazoo area.The millage will raise about $12.5-million…

President Biden has nominated a Montana environmentalist to push his agenda calling for millions of dollars to restore ecosystems and clean water sources over some 600 million acres of public land.

Kaya Kristina lives next to a huge park in Toronto. Several years ago she began putting water bowls outside for neighborhood dogs to enjoy. After the pandemic hit, she started putting out treats too.

Dr. Sumit Ray, critical care chief at a New Delhi hospital, is on the front lines of India's growing COVID-19 crisis. "As a system in different parts of the country, we have collapsed," he says.