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Mangroves help protect coastal areas from flooding and sequester more carbon than tropical forests. But new studies suggest they may be wiped out by the rise of sea levels.

The court ruled that Florida could legally restrict allowing people with past felony convictions to register to vote until after they have fully paid off their court-related fines.

Officials are reviewing the citations and the police department's evidence. "It's now incumbent on the city counselor to decide whether or not to charge these people," the city counselor said.

President Trump is known for wielding fear as a political weapon. But on the coronavirus, he says he wanted to "play it down."

NPR's Scott Simon shares the wild and wooly story of Ewenice, the sheep, who went close to 4 years unshorn. She's now 45 pounds lighter.

The Latino USA host, who's spent a career covering those silenced in the media, now tells her own story in a new memoir. "We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public," she said.

Becky Mayo plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

A fundamentalist Christian church at the heart of a right-wing movement is clashing with the South Korean government over COVID-19.

In Northern California, the deadly Bear Fire forced the evacuation of parts of the town of Paradise, which nearly burned to the ground in 2018. For Camp Fire survivors, the trauma is all coming back.

The race for Joni Ernst's seat could help determine control of the Senate. At a recent campaign event, the GOP lawmaker echoed a debunked conspiracy theory about the pandemic's death toll.