The visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse.

Annual inflation hit 3.5% in June, down from May's more than three-year high — but the resumption of the conflict with Iran threaten to push up inflation as energy costs once again spike.

Hundreds of people turned out for a vigil in Biddeford and rally in Portland Monday night to call for justice for a 26-year-old Colombian man fatally shot by federal immigration agents who were looking for someone else.

A troubling pattern of federal agents fatally shooting civilians is developing, with deaths in Maine, Texas and Tennessee. The family of a man shot by agents told NPR they want answers.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Robert Malley, a negotiator of a 2015 Iran nuclear deal, about President Trump saying the U.S. is reinstating a blockade on Iranian ports and charging a toll on cargo.

President Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is open, and the U.S., not Iran, will collect tolls.

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, reacts to the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian man by federal law enforcement in Biddeford, Maine, Monday morning.

88-year-old José Buscaglia Guillermety is working with the University of Connecticut’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative to catalog his art for the next generation.

AI is moving beyond chatbots and into toys, dolls, and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert says the technology offers real promise — but also risks crowding out the human relationships children need most.

The U.S. military announced it will begin its blockade of Iranian ships over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, as Iran vowed to assert its own control over the critical international waterway.

Trump says the U.S. will collect tolls and impose blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, man killed by federal agents in Maine, states sue to stop Paramount-Warner Bros merger.

The sultry voice of Baby Rose returns on a new album called "Yearnalism," which she considers the study of desire.