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The debt-racked territory voted to become the 51st state in 2012, but Congress never picked up the result. Puerto Rico voted again Sunday and partial results show most voters support U.S. statehood.

Don Laub was a pioneering surgeon — one of the first in the U.S. to perform gender reassignment surgeries, but tragedy came when he traveled to Mexico to provide free surgeries to children.

This week NPR's Lakshmi Singh speaks with Raj Date, former Deputy Director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about the House bill to scale back Dodd-Frank financial regulations.

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized marriages between people of different races 50 years ago. But some interracial couples today say they sometimes feel unaccepted in the U.S.

The Zika outbreak in Florida is officially over. And cases are dropping across the Caribbean. But doctors say the risk to pregnant women there — whether residents or travelers — isn't gone.

June 12 is National Day in Russia and anti-government protests have been planned to mark the day. The eastern city of Novosibirsk could be an early indicator of protest turnout elsewhere in Russia.

Rachel Martin talks to Washington Post reporter Aaron Davis, who says Washington, D.C., and Maryland plan to sue President Trump over his failure to divest himself of his business interests.

There's a vending machine at a mall in Moscow. For about $1 you can buy a hundred likes. For $850 you can get 150,000 followers. But you have to give your password to a random machine in Russia.

Iran's Iranian Minister of Intelligence also said that in the past three months, Iran has broken up 25 terrorist teams.

French voters cast ballots on Sunday in the first round of voting for Parliament. Turnout was low, but the results were an outsized victory for the new French president's new party.