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Former President Trump is now a felon. Will he get prison time?

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with criminal defense attorney Duncan Levin about what former President Donald Trump faces following Thursday's guilty verdict in the hush money trial.

Jurors unanimously agreed Trump was guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records

The Manhattan DA’s office started the investigation in 2018. It went to the Supreme Court twice to get Donald Trump’s tax records, and it wasinvestigated through two different DAs.

'Chimney caps, vent pipes, gutters': Why some woodpeckers are major metal heads

When an NPR reporter heard a startling loud metallic noise in her house, she was about to get an interesting lesson in animal behavior.

In a first, OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel

AI tools have helped the people behind influence operations produce more content, but OpenAI says the operations it disrupted didn't gain traction with real people or reach large audiences.

Honoré Prentice (in yellow shirt and glasses), who lives in Canada, met three of his birth siblings, who live in the U.S., in person on Dec. 13, 2021. The brothers were all born in Haiti.

When an adoptee reunites with birth siblings abroad: 'There's no instruction manual'

Reuniting with birth siblings after an international adoption is a challenging — and emotionally charged — mission. Here are stories from four families.

Taylor Henry, 8, volunteered to count horseshoe crabs along the shoreline at midnight. He said the way the males pile on top of one another to reach the females reminds him of "cuddling."

Safe to reproduce: Horseshoe crabs enjoy new protections on Mass. beaches

Prehistoric animals roam the Massachusetts coastline. And this time of year they’re storming the beaches for their annual spawning season. Here's a closer look at how horseshoe crabs reproduce, and what officials are doing to protect them.

As it considers hospital merger, CMC faces questions about religious identity and abortion

The hospital says its board could vote soon on whether to move forward with a potential sale to HCA Healthcare.

Celebrating Juneteenth with Nicole Taylor, plus chefs we’re rooting for

Nicole Taylor discusses the history and spirit behind the Juneteenth holiday, on this episode of Seasoned. Plus, get to know the local chef of the Peruvian restaurant Coracora. And, Chef Plum gets an Emmy nod for Restaurant Road Trip.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, center, walks out after a bilateral meeting with China's Defense Minister Dong Jun on the sidelines of the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue summit at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore on Friday.

U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs hold first official meeting in Singapore

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart met for the first time in Singapore on Friday, as Washington and Beijing seek to head off potential conflict in the region.

Diane Lewis stands for a portrait on the steps of the the apartment building where she grew up in the Upper Albany area of Hartford. She said that when her son was incarcerated, she talked to him every day. But because it was expensive, it was a struggle. “As a mother, that’s what you do.” Lewis has worked with a campaign to make prison phone calls free nationwide, and spent time advocating for a bill that made phone calls free in Connecticut in 2022.

A mother's calling: Inside the fight to make prison phone calls free in Connecticut

Local families brought an end to expensive prison communication, providing a lifeline for the voices behind bars. But consistent contact still isn't guaranteed.

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