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More than a year after ISIS was driven out, residents are doing their best to rebuild in historic neighborhoods left in rubble. "Even if no one else came back," a shopkeeper says, "I would come back."

For many people this year, navigating grief from personal losses, like breakups and miscarriages, amid the drama of the pandemic has felt ... awkward. Here, stories of coping amid collective grief.

Investigators have discovered 17 mass graves containing bodies of some of the 3,000 Yazidis killed by ISIS. For survivors, a grave with remains of older and pregnant women prompts a special anguish.

The Republican National Convention begins with a roll call and official re-nomination of President Trump as the Republican nominee and Vice President Pence as his running mate.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Jon M. Chu about his new movie musical, In The Heights. It was adapted from the Tony Award-winning musical.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with migrants in Tijuana, Mexico about why they chose to leave their home countries in hopes of reaching the U.S.

California is in the middle of its fifth major storm since Christmas. The Biden administration unveils a new student loan repayment plan. Police release more details on a school shooting in Virginia.

"Such Kindness" by Andre Dubus tells the story of a one-time building contractor whose injuries launch a spiral of bills, addictions, depression and shame. And Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, by America" lays out the myths of poverty.

More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.

Morton and nearby towns in central Mississippi saw the biggest workplace ICE raids in the country in 2019, when nearly 700 workers were arrested from chicken processing plants. Five years later, the impact is still felt here, even as activists and immigrants brace for more workplace raids under a second Trump term.