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In wake of the death of Philando Castile in Minnesota, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Gwen Carr. She is the mother of Eric Garner, whose controversial death during a police arrest in 2014 sparked protests in New York City.

Coronavirus has brought life in Italy to a standstill. The only sounds on the streets these days are birds, church bells — and songs for healthcare workers from Italians on their apartment balconies.

As the coronavirus has spread around the world, the virus for some reason has affected the affluent and the socially well-connected, as well as working-class people.

A 14-year-old boy from Lexington, Ky., has solved a Rubik's Cube in less than five seconds. As Guinness World Records declares this a record-breaker, we hear how NPR covered a Rubik's Cube competition in 1981.

As America becomes more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: some communities are actually becoming less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA and moved in.

Complaints are growing on college campuses that charges of racism are being met with a lack of empathy. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Slate chief political editor Jamelle Bouie about activism and safe spaces.

HBO's sci-fi drama Westworld starts its third season tonight. This season streamlines the story and focuses on the quest by an artificial person to destroy human civilization in the future.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to the San Francisco-based artist about her debut EP, as well as teaching folks traditions in public schools and her style of music she calls "femmeton."

Stefan Caruba, the senior nurse practitioner at the Night Ministry in Chicago,, talks about how the coronavirus outbreak has changed his organization's work with the homeless.

French President Francois Hollande says the so-called Islamic State's attacks in Paris are an "act of war." NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Sylvie Kauffmann of Le Monde, about the attacks.

While scores lie in hospitals with wounds received in the Paris terror attacks, the relatives of other victims look for the bodies of loved ones in a morgue on the River Seine.

Teddy Wayne's talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his new novel, a study of a young man who stalks a woman at Harvard University.