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Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.

NPR gets a rare glimpse inside the Israeli-occupied zone of devastated Gaza.

Sisters Shanita Baraka Akintonde and Danielle Tavon Bishop remember their mother, Mary Catherine Bishop, and their final moments with her.

The Taliban attack on young Malala Yousafzai had a profound effect on her hometown, Mingora, in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley. For the other girls with Malala that day, the scars are both emotional and physical.

Each year, Reno, Nev., has several months of below-freezing temperatures. A longtime advocate for homeless people in the city has established a warming center that offers a safe place to stay.

In Asheville, N.C., hundreds of people still live in RV's 16 months after Hurricane Helene, and staying warm in freezing temperatures is a challenge.

The Help has become a box-office smash, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance is using the film to raise awareness for real-life Aibileens and Minnys via its "Be The Help Campaign." A series of viewing parties across the country on Oscar night is designed to support the actresses who, with their work, honored domestic work and made it visible. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports.

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to meet President Trump, who might be changing U.S. policy on settlements, Jerusalem and Israel's adversary — Iran.

The Philadelphia 76ers want to build a billion-dollar arena in the city's downtown. Residents and business owners in nearby Chinatown say the project will destroy the thriving neighborhood.