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After a suicide, family members are often devastated. Depression rates are much higher than when a loved one dies naturally. But Sandy Bem's family says her approach to suicide helped them mourn.

Guillermo Vincente Vidal is the Deputy Mayor of Denver and has an unusual life story, chronicled in his recent book, Boxing for Cuba. Vidal talks about his top leadership role in the city and talks about his journey to success, including how, at age 10, he was one of more than 14,000 children airlifted out of communist CUBA by the U.S.-sponsored "Operation Peter Pan."

With the election winner still undecided, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election law expert Michael Kang and Jelani Cobb ofThe New Yorkerabout the state of American democracy.

Scientists say accelerating deforestation and development may increase the risk of pandemic diseases. The current economic crisis may also make that trend worse if more people cut down trees for fuel.

States across the country are starting to reopen. Some of them — like Florida, Maine and Colorado — have big tourism economies. But the coronavirus pandemic might affect summer vacations this year.

The latest weekly state unemployment figures have been published on Thursday — more than three more million people are out of work.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Robi Damelin and Bassam Aramin, two parents who lost their children to the violence between Israelis and Palestinians, about the current unrest taking place there.

Thousands of people across the country are calling for justice for George Floyd's death this week. We talk to some of the people organizing the movement in Washington, DC.

The Department of Homeland Security had earlier said eight people on a flight out of the U.S. had been convicted of crimes in the United States and that they couldn't be brought back.

A grassroots-led campaign organized hundreds of protests and events across the U.S. Organizers say the momentum built on resistance against the Trump administration has not slowed.