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1943: US Supreme Court upholds America's World War II Japanese Internment Camps in the case of Hirabayashi vs. The United States. Supreme Court Justice and former Governor of Michigan, Frank Murphy, expressed his strong dissent, stating, “I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way of life. It is unattractive in any setting, but it is utterly revolting among a free people who have embraced the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States. All residents of this nation are kin in some way by blood or culture to a foreign land. Yet they are primarily and necessarily a part of the new and distinct civilization of the United States. They must accordingly be treated at all times as the heirs of the American experiment and as entitled to all rights and freedoms guaranteed by the constitution.”

Major League Baseball played at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday. It is where Willie Mays, who died this week at age 93, made his professional debut in the Negro Leagues.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to emergency room physician Dr. George Chiampas about how to stay healthy during the heat wave.

Banning smartphones in schools is one of those rare policies that Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on but it hasn’t always been a popular idea — so what’s changed?

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Jean-Yves Camus of the French think-tank IRIS, about the rise of the far right in the country, and what's at stake in legislative elections.

NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it

More family medicine and primary care doctors are doing abortions and questioning why it's been separated from other care for decades.

Spotted lanternflies have been seen in California, where the invasive species poses a risk to the state's lucrative wine industry.

A worldwide poll from the United Nations of more than 75,000 people shows a vast majority want governments to do more to address climate change.

TikTok offers a glimpse into how it hopes to overturn a law that could have the app banned in the U.S. More schools move to ban smartphones. There are quality issues with some carbon offset programs.