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In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

Silent Sam fell to the ground Monday night , breaking through the dirt around its pedestal. Protesters cheered, and police, for the most part, looked on...

During her speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah introduced many people to Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old sharecropper who was gang raped in 1940s Alabama and...

Ireland has been plagued by sexual abuse scandals involving priests. The pope's visit comes as the Catholic Church faces multiple sexual abuse scandals across the world.

Malcolm Turnbull was booted from his seat by conservatives in his party. It's the 4th time in the past decade that the country has removed its prime minister. Scott Morrison is the new prime minister.

Born 100 years ago on Aug. 25, 1918, Bernstein was a larger-than-life character — on stage as a conductor, at the piano as a composer, on TV as an educator and in a sometimes tangled personal life.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with NPR's Peter Overby to break down the law around campaign finance and the consequences for breaching it.

The relationship between President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to be at a nadir. They traded public barbs Thursday, and even Sessions' allies say he could be replaced.

Despite a stunning guilty plea from the president's ex-lawyer, the consensus among Democratic lawmakers remains the same: Impeachment should be a deliberative process, not a partisan affair.

Sometimes people who fall great distances survive. How do they get so lucky? Scientists share the secrets of an implausible safe landing.