The UAW is set to expand its strike if automakers fail to meet a deadline. The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed by migrants. Azerbaijan ends an offensive in Nargorno-Karabakh.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Vulture's Hershel Pandya about ethics in comedy following revelations that Hasan Minhaj fabricated material.

Parents in Denver jump on the "bike bus" bandwagon, organizing group rides to a local elementary school as a safe, healthy and low carbon means of delivering kids to classrooms.

Allies of Canada have so far had a muted response to allegations that a Canadian Sikh leader was killed by agents of the Indian government.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, we revisit a mother's conversation with her son, who decided to open the only grocery store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

Sunday's race in Keene, N.H., is named after a New England resident who was one of the best distance runners of the early 20th century. He played a role in redefining our relationship to exercise.

Hours away from a deadline set by the United Auto Workers union, we'll soon know whether more auto workers are going to join the strike against the Big 3 automakers.

The high school student has been suspended for more than two weeks for wearing a natural hairstyle that officials say violated a dress code. So far, 24 states have signed the CROWN Act into law.

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

If the UAW strike leads to a win for the union, southern auto workers believe that will lead to a pay up at plants like Nissan and Mercedes.