Singer and former beauty queen Anita Bryant has died at the age of 84. She was well-known for her advocacy against LGBTQ rights in the 1970s.

"It's wild. There's people out here that have just created a chain," said one woman who showed up to volunteer at a YMCA in ...

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths." ...

A winter storm is still causing cancellations and power outages in parts of the south this morning.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to law professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University about the Laken Riley Act, a bipartisan bill in Congress that aims to expand the detention of undocumented immigrants.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to novelist Scott Turow about his latest legal thriller, "Presumed Guilty." ...

Firefighters continue to struggle against the wildfires around Los Angeles. The death count has risen and looting has become a problem amid the destruction.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant talk about the college football final, the start of the NFL playoffs and the opening round of the Australian Open tennis championship.

President-elect Donald Trump picks a fight with California Governor Gavin Newsom as the wildfires burn, and was sentenced this week.

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were targeted with bomb threats. An NPR investigation later found evidence the dissident was linked to con which included the specter of bomb threats.

The Wilson family evacuated from their home in Altadena, California before it burned down. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Virginia Wilson and her 16-year old daughter, Charlotte.

President-elect Trump's picks for his national security team will soon start confirmation hearings, after his remarks about buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal and making Canada a state.