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"To save India and every Indian," Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the country's more than 1.3 billion people — with few exceptions — to stay in their homes for the next three weeks.

The announcement by Mayor Eric Garcetti makes LA the first major city to offer free testing to all its residents. It came as county health officials reported another 1,541 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Celedonia "Cal" Jones grew up in Harlem during the 1930s. When he was 9 years old, his family moved to a new neighborhood. Being the new kid on the block wasn't easy.

A decision to let her son enjoy a few moments of independence and beauty ended in tragedy. But out of Rich Stark's death in a car accident, Myra Dean managed to extract small comforts.

We may not get flying cars or robot maids any time soon, but physicist Michio Kaku says other inventions just as amazing are in the pipeline: imagine a working invisibility cloak, teleportation, and contact lenses that display the Internet.

The Scottish singer rode the wave of "Rollermania" to several chart hits in the glammed-out days of '70s rock.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In the 1970s, the average heroin user was 28 to 30 years old and an urban dweller. Today, the average addict is a white, middle-class teenager. As the profile of heroin users has changed, so has the drug, which is more potent than ever. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the new generation of users in the first of a five-part series on this growing addiction crisis.

California is enduring its first major heat wave of the year. Temperatures are in the triple digits across the state. Experts say there's more of this weather to come this summer.

Here, Thompson discusses his new album, Electric, and performs selections from it live in the studio.