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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Crystal Peoples-Stokes, majority leader of the New York State Assembly, about legalizing marijuana with a focus on restorative justice.

Police identified a 35-year-old man they believed was responsible for attacking a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.

About 5 percent of people in the U.S. suffer from the form of depression brought on by the dark days of winter.

Wisconsin officials reported the largest single-day increase in COVID-19-related deaths on Wednesday. Twenty-two people died, bringing the total to 539…

After two of her classmates took their lives, MIT freshman Isabel "Izzy" Lloyd made wristbands to promote compassionate outreach on campus. The white bands say TMAYD, for Tell Me About Your Day.

Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — that enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas were told they had been freed. This news came two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, N.J., about the protests taking place outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, which have grown violent in recent days.

Officials say there are simply too many people still on the streets with no justification. The country just registered its largest death toll in a single day since the start of the outbreak.

NPR's Mike Pesca reports from New York City on the more than 100,000 protestors have gathered near Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention. On Sunday, the day before the convention's start, a crowd estimated between 120,000 and 500,000 people marched along Seventh Avenue to protest Bush administration policies. Pesca found the protests to be mostly peaceful, though some marchers confronted the police.

The NFL held a moment of silence at a game Monday evening for Joe McKnight. The football player was shot dead in an apparent road rage incident in New Orleans. The shooter was released by police.