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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with acclaimed Scottish poet Don Patterson about his memoir, "Toy Fights."

As federal investigators begin to launch criminal cases against some of the perpetrators of the violence, a growing chorus of advocates and lawmakers say tech companies bear some responsibility, too.

Several families of people who fatally overdosed on the herb kratom are now suing the gas stations and vape shops that sold it to their loved ones.

With much at stake on Election Day, labor unions have deployed canvassers to knock on doors in swing states. With polling tight, the focus is on turning out the vote.

Their wages have always been low. With rising inflation and falling prices paid by Western companies for clothing, they're protesting for better pay — and hoping the new government will spur change.

Hear the latest on results of the 2024 U.S. election.

Danny Werfel is in place as the new IRS commissioner with a new budget courtesy of the Inflation Reduction Act. How's he going to spend it?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Mossad agent Sima Shine about the intelligence failure that the Oct. 7 attacks represent for security services in Israel.

About 240 hostages are being held in Gaza. Their families and many in Israel say they support a prisoner swap: Israel releasing all its Palestinian detainees in exchange for the captives' release.

Saeed al Batal is a Syrian who has witnessed the destruction of his country, city and most recently, his home over the last four years. He is among the millions whose lives have been changed forever by the civil war there. He tells us what daily life is like inside Syria.