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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson about the Respect for Marriage act, which President Biden is expected to sign into law soon.

In this week's "My Unsung Hero" installment, a woman recounts an unexpected act of kindness from a 7th grade bully.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried spent a lot of time in Washington and courted lawmakers. At the FTX collapse hearings, he will most likely get a negative response from those lawmakers.

The man accused of making a bomb that killed 270 people in the skies above Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 has made an initial appearance in a U.S. courtroom.

At the start of the economic crisis in Lebanon, banks froze people out of their accounts. After struggling to make ends meet, some people have taken extreme measures to access their savings.

International aid groups are warning of a potential famine in Somalia as the country faces what could be its worst drought in 40 years.

Eight artists have been chosen for a trip around the moon on a SpaceX flight called the "dearMoon project."

A Russian recruit, mobilized for the war in Ukraine, is fighting to serve his country in a different way: alternative service as a conscientious objector.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with retired FBI Special Agent Dick Marquise, who led the Pan Am Flight 103 investigation, about the Lockerbie plane bombing suspect in U.S. custody.

A Dangerous Business, by Jane Smiley, is mash-up of a Western, a serial killer mystery and a feminist erotic romp. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt, is a noir story about an octopus.