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Trees are one of the best ways to fight deadly urban heat, but U.S. cities lose millions every year. And many low-income areas are starting at a disadvantage.

The NPR Movies Team picks the 12 films they're most looking forward to seeing — movies that will likely end up in theaters or on streaming services sometime in the next few months.

Nineteen states allow voters to try to recall elected state officials for a number of reasons, and those efforts have increased exponentially. Including in Colorado where there were six in 2019.

In California, at Santa Barbara's harbor, mourners left candles and flowers to remember the 34 people who are presumed dead following a fire on a commercial diving boat.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced she is withdrawing the proposed law, which had set off protests now entering their fourth month. Protesters' demands, however, have grown in number.

The report says that all sides in the Yemen war are committing war crimes, and that countries backing them could be complicit. The U.S. provides logistical support to a Saudi-led coalition.

British lawmakers rebelled against Prime Minister Boris Johnson to prevent him from taking a no-deal Brexit. Johnson says he's ready to call a snap election.

Michigan drivers who fail to stop for a school bus displaying its stop sign could face harsher penalties under new bills in the state Legislature....

Cathleen Schine's new novel follows redheaded twin sisters whose obsessive love of language brings them close as children — and begins to drive them apart as increasingly competitive adults.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Joel Klein, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., about Hurricane Dorian which is battering the Bahamas with high winds and torrential rains.