The podcast The Last Ride examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable.
Companies are building carbon dioxide pipelines as a possible climate solution. But after a pipeline rupture sent dozens to the hospital in a Mississippi town, there are questions about their safety.
At least four inmates died and 46 others attempted suicide from July 2021 through June 2022, according to a new report. It is the most yearly deaths and attempted suicides recorded since 2016.
More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.
In January, the Virginia Department of Corrections restricted public access to execution records. NPR is now publishing a selection of those secret files.
Police in Allen, Texas, said the gunman was among dead after he was killed by a nearby officer. Three of the wounded victims are in critical condition.
A search for two missing Oklahoma teenagers and a convicted sex offender ended within hours on Monday when police found seven bodies, including five teenagers, on a rural property.
She was hired to cremate medical cadavers. But first, she harvested organs, skin and genitalia and sold them to a man she met through a Facebook group called Oddities, according to court documents.
A California law allows a terminally ill person to end their life, but some people with disabilities say they're at risk of being coerced into seeking the medications needed for assisted suicide.
Las Vegas resident Claude Russell Pensinger disappeared while fishing in the reservoir. His skeletal remains were one of several sets discovered last year as water levels dropped in a drought.
The car carrying Kaylin Gillis, 20, was turning around after her friends realized they had made mistakenly gone to the wrong address. The 65-year-old homeowner fired at them from his porch.
Kemp said he was shot at first after he tracked down his stolen cell phone and confronted the person he presumed had it. Kemp was released from jail and not initially charged after the incident.
ProPublica analyzed 600+ train accident reports from 20 years, raising questions on whether longer trains with fewer crews cause more derailments. Reporter Dan Schwartz discusses the findings on NPR.
