Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says Trump's actions amounted to "flipping the bird at the government" provoking a federal indictment on his own.

Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical retelling explores the web of past, present and future.

After one of the main ingredients in a classic version of the icebox cake was discontinued, fans are scrambling to find alternatives for their no-bake summer dessert fix.

The debt erasure applies to long-time borrowers who should have qualified for loan forgiveness under the rules of the government's income-driven repayment plans, but haven't received it.

Dr. Christine King Farris will lie in state at the Georgia Capitol today.  She was the last living sibling of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  She died last month at the age of 95.

The city of Columbus is paying $600,000 to settle claims that a Black former police chief racially discriminated against two white police officers by promoting them.

The Georgia Professional Standards Commission voted unanimously Thursday to eliminate more so called “woke” words from public school teachers lesson plans.

Rabies is endemic to Georgia wildlife and the state Department of Public Health is warning people to be careful.

The federal government's budget gap widened significantly in the first nine months of the fiscal year, as tax receipts slumped and spending increased.

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.)

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to address the climate crisis. But as the president focuses on the law's economic benefits, is his climate win getting lost?

A federal jury has found Robert Bowers acted with intent when he killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. This means Bowers could be sentenced to death in the final phase of the trial.

NATO's expansion is the exact opposite of what Russia wanted, says Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. He spoke to NPR about its NATO's newest members, and when Ukraine might join them.

Georgia has removed another 95,000 adults and children from state insurance rolls as it continues to review who is eligible foe Medicaid. 

Airport security officials are detecting more guns at Georgia airports.

Georgia ended the fiscal year with a 33-billion-dollar surplus despite Governor Kemp’s forecast that the state would face a steep revenue decline.

Chris Eubanks fair tale run at Wimbledon is over.  He lost yesterday.

On this day 50 years ago, the band Queen released its first album and introduced the world to the singular voice of Freddie Mercury. (Note: Story first aired on Morning Edition on Aug. 30, 2010.)

New numbers out Wednesday are expected to show the inflation rate in June was just over 3%. That's a big improvement from this time last year, when inflation topped 9%.

The Czech writer tackled big topics — sex, surveillance, death, totalitarianism — but always with a sense of humor. Blacklisted and banned in the Soviet Union, he left for France in 1975.

Ninety-six  people arrived for Fulton County grand jury duty unaware that some of them could decide one of the nation’s biggest cases — whether to indict Donald Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election.  Fulton County Superior Court impaneled two grand juries of 26 people each yesterday.

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Haze and smoke over the past few weeks have brought into focus the 40-year-old state program that monitors air quality.

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Georgia Tech is hosting a watch party this morning as one of its former tennis players, Christopher Eubanks’ who is the breakout star at Wimbledon gets ready to take the court.  This morning Eubanks challenges the world’s number three ranked player Daniil Med-ve-dev. 

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