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The U.K. justice minister has pardoned thousands of gay men convicted under "gross indecency" laws, which made homosexuality illegal until 1967.

This week, the World Series features two of professional sports' most famously hapless franchises: the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. Both teams have gone decades without a championship.

Two-thirds of Americans say President Trump has increased racial tensions after the death of George Floyd, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has pushed for changes to a bipartisan anti-lynching bill sparking a debate in Senate. Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., pushed back at his objections.

The Vanishing Half is about African American twins — one lives as a black woman, the other "passes" as white. Passing is "an act of self-creation and also an act of self-destruction," Bennett says.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Elisa Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, about the latest monthly jobs report published Friday.

A monthly job report published Friday has shown signs of strength in the labor market. Unemployment has declined and employers have created millions of new jobs in May.

President Trump said in the wake of George Floyd's death that police nationwide have to "do better." But the Justice Department under Trump has backed away from the Obama-era police reforms.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with David North about his and his husband's quarantine project, A Doorway to Imagination, that went viral and brightened people's days in the past couple of weeks.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., about the protests sparked by George Floyd's death and the president's response to them.