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New research shows that a majority of Indigenous languages in America are endangered. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Native American language preservationist Alaina Tahlate.

Drug overdoses are killing more people than ever in the U.S., and a new CDC report finds growing racial disparities among those who have died — with the largest increase among Black Americans.

On Sunday an Amtrak passenger train seemingly traveling on the wrong track, crashed into a freight train and derailed in South Carolina, killing the Amtrak engineer and a conductor.

It’s Valentines Day, which means it's also "One Billion Rising" Day, an international event that draws attention to domestic violence.

Between twin bombings at a Parachinar market, a car bombing near a police office in Quetta and a shooting in Karachi, Pakistan is reeling from attacks claimed by several extremist groups.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with David North about his and his husband's quarantine project, A Doorway to Imagination, that went viral and brightened people's days in the past couple of weeks.

In a letter to the public, Barack Obama reflects on his time as president and looks ahead. "The change we've brought about these past eight years was never about me," he writes. "It was about you."

Women from different Indigenous nationalities traveled from their territories to Puyo, Ecuador on March 8 to march through the city's streets as they do every year on International Women's Day

Eleven tribal nations steward vast stretches of Wisconsin's natural resources. Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins, Jr. shares his perspective on sharing the earth's resources.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jorge Barrera of the CBC about his recent reporting on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.