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Offering rewards to catch criminals may, in rare instances, motivate people to come forward with a tip. Few people, however, claim rewards, and there's little evidence that they work.

"Never had so much love in my life," Antonio Basco said Friday as hundreds of people whom he had never met showered him with hugs, blessings and support.

Five years after Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, many African Americans in the St. Louis area remain frustrated by racial inequity. But some see signs of reforms taking hold.

Victims of the shooting rampage in West Texas include a truck driver who moved to the area because he thought it was safer and a 15-year-old girl who was shot while walking out of a car dealership.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Jose Montes de Oca, co-organizer of Code for Venezuela, an organization of tech workers who organize "hackathons" to help solve some of the country's problems.

Florida's emergency managers are reassessing how they order evacuations based on Florida's experience last year with Hurricane Michael.

Small donors carried Democrats to victory in 2018 races. Now Republicans, who once had the magic touch with small-dollar givers, are struggling to match Democrats' fundraising platform, ActBlue.

Protests in Portland, Ore., have grown increasingly heated and even violent. But one typically outspoken movement in the Northwest has been noticeably absent from the anger on the streets.

Daniel Garcia of Houston, Texas has been evicted from his home. He shares what that experience has been like for him and his family as part of our Outbreak Voices series.

The coronavirus is surging in California – with about 300,000 cases across the state. Many areas that had low numbers early on are now seeing a rise in positive tests and hospitalizations.