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1912: The Titanic tragedy unfolded in the North Atlantic, with a Michigan couple, Dickinson and Helen Bishop, among the first to board lifeboats. 1911: The Detroit Tigers played their legendary "Blizzard Game," where heavy snow made baseball challenging. 2002: Byron 'Whizzer' White, once a Detroit Lions star, passed away, leaving behind a legacy as both an athlete and a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Jesse Washington of ESPN's Andscape, a sports and pop culture website, about what this year's crop of college talent could bring to the WNBA.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat.

Twenty years after images of American soldiers abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were published, three men are getting their day in a U.S. court.

In her new book, Doris Kearns Goodwin revisits the '60s through her late husband Richard Goodwin's perspective—and her own.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, about the civil war that erupted in Sudan. A year later the suffering there isn't getting global attention.

Democrats and Republicans will hold runoff elections on Tuesday to decide who will be on the ballot in Alabama's newly drawn 2nd Congressional District.

Iran strikes Israel in retaliation for an attack that killed top Iranian officers at an Iranian consulate in Syria. Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is set to begin Monday in New York.

How the Biden administration is assessing the weekend developments in the Middle East — following the recent tensions between President Biden and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

NPR's Morning Edition hears from organizers, elected officials and regular people about the effects of gun violence.