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Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning.

Montgomery, Ala., has a new monument park where visitors are confronted with the history of enslaved people in America.

Most corners of the country harbor old or erroneous markers of some kind. An NPR investigation examines the proliferation of Confederate markers and a century-long effort to recast the Civil War.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a Not Necessarily the Nose-style look at late-career Liam Neeson, post-‘Taken’ Liam Neeson, doing-action-movies-into-his-70s Liam Neeson.

Congress moved a step closer on Saturday toward finalizing long-delayed military assistance for Ukraine. But relief among Ukrainians has been mixed with uneasiness over future U.S. assistance.

We hear from the International Association of Fairs & Expositions about New England's role in the history of agricultural fairs, and how Connecticut keeps those traditions going. Plus, we preview three harvest festivals in our state.

Bread — and the lack thereof — plays a role in many corners of the world facing a crisis, from Israel and Gaza to Ukraine to Afghanistan to Sudan.

Chanel Miller talks about her new book for children, "Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All." Set in New York City, it's about a little girl and her friend who reunite people with their lost socks.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks New York Magazine writer Tirhakah Love about the ongoing feud between Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and other rappers.

The Tennessee drag law that was struck down last year was written so broadly that it would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.