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NPR's Audie Cornish talks to California Attorney General Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention about the Democrats' positions on Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform.

Alpena, Mich., has turned the shipwrecks off its shores into a tourist attraction. Now, other Great Lakes towns are hoping to create freshwater marine sanctuaries of their own.

In the U.S., VapoRub goes on a sick child's chest. In Russia, it might go on the soles of the feet. Cultural norms have a big effect on how we diagnose and treat illnesses, especially at home.

This was supposed to be the crowning moment for Rio de Janeiro's mayor. Instead he's found himself engulfed in corruption allegations weeks before the opening of the Olympics.

Congress has failed to pass gun control laws for years. But following the massacre in Orlando, there are now competing proposals. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Susan Collins about her proposal.

Vigils, memorials and funerals are now happening several times a day around central Florida after last weekend's shooting. Nineteen of the 53 people injured remain hospitalized.

The presumptive GOP nominee spent much of May campaigning in states that he either won't win or probably will — instead of those swing states necessary to help put him over the top in November.

Over 50 State Department officials signed a dissent memo, criticizing the administration's Syria policy. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to former ambassador Robert Ford about why many took this action.

Brandon Vandenburg was found guilty of aggravated rape in a case that stems from the 2013 gang rape of a woman he had been dating. A previous guilty conviction had been dismissed due to a mistrial.

A Colorado woman managed to fight off a mountain lion that was attacking her 5-year-old son. During the harrowing rescue, she reportedly reached into the cat's jaws to free her child's head.