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A Martinez speaks with Carol Gigliotti about her book The Creative Lives of Animals.

Who gives you strength? Who makes you feel that you belong? NPR's Rachel Martin asked listeners to reflect on family.

As a United Nations council considers the crackdown in Iran, the US and other countries are looking at what they can do to support protesters seeking more freedom.

The USO, the iconic organization that supports service members and their families, has been quietly closing its hospitality centers. But it's opening others in the military's most remote locations.

New regional airline Aleutian Airways touched down at Unalaska’s Tom Madsen Airport on Nov. 16., and with it arrived the hope of more stable and affordable air service to the remote Aleutian Island. The roughly 15 passengers on board Aleutian Airways’ inaugural flight from Anchorage were greeted by a few dozen cheering Unalaskans, including local officials from the city and school district. “It's nice to see change,” said local Karley Parker. “And it's a very welcome change. I'm glad that we have options. It's much needed here in Unalaska, for competition and rates and just getting people off the island.”

One year ago, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued a declaration to remove a slur against Indigenous women from nearly 650 place names on federal lands. New names were finalized this fall — including one for a Dillingham creek that bore the slur. Three elementary students in Dillingham had been pushing to change the creek’s name long before the federal government started its process.

Dawn Gilbertson, a columnist covering all things travel for the Wall Street Journal, talks about the best and worst airports in the U.S.

After his death in 2018, the wife of a former USC linebacker filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming that CTE — or chronic traumatic encephalopathy contributed to her husband's early death.

At least seven people have died in a mass shooting at a Walmart store in the coastal city of Chesapeake, Va. Authorities say the shooter is among the dead.

Officials are investigating the Colorado Springs nightclub shooting as a possible hate crime. Last year, state lawmakers made it easier for prosecutors to pursue hate crime charges.