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America First Legal, an organization launched by former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller (seen here at the White House in 2017), has been funding political ads that accuse the Biden administration of "pushing radical gender experiments on children."

Right-wing groups spend millions of dollars on ads targeting transgender kids

America First Legal, an organization launched by former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller, is the group behind many of the political ads.

Grandson Finds Only Known Recordings Of Music From Frontlines Of WWII

Everyone thought they were lost, but Jason Burt has found his grandfather's WWII Army Band recordings. It is the only known live music recordings near a battlefield.

Critics of Mexico's new electoral law changes say democracy is under attack

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Leila Miller, a reporter for the Los Angles Times, about Mexico's new election law changes that critics say severely undermine the country's democracy.

Joshua Davis-Ruperto, Executive Director of the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and Erin Eveland, Executive Director of the Hub Arts & Cultural Center in Rushville.

Assisting the arts throughout Illinois

The Illinois Arts Council Agency is holding a listening tour with a focus on central and southern Illinois. Their travels brought them to Rushville on Feb. 27.

An F-16 fighter jet used a missile to take out an unidentified object over Michigan's Lake Huron on Saturday. Here, a Belgian F-16 is pictured taking part in a NATO nuclear deterrence exercise in Belgium in October.

Over Lake Huron, the U.S. downs a 3rd unidentified object in 3 days

A unidentified object has been shot down by U.S. forces over Michigan's Lake Huron, according to the Pentagon. It's the fourth aerial shootdown in just over a week in North America.

Mary O'Connor, pictured here addressing reporters during a news conference at Tampa Police headquarters in February, resigned after using her position to escape a ticket during a traffic stop.

Tampa police chief resigns after she flashed her badge to escape a traffic stop

Body camera footage showed Police Chief Mary O'Connor saying "I'm hoping you'll just let us go tonight" after a deputy pulled her and her husband over for driving an unregistered golf cart.

A display at the Computer Game Museum in Berlin, Germany features a standing console of Pong, one of the earliest commercially successful video games.

Reflecting on Pong's video game success, 50 years later

50 years ago, Atari released the original Pong as an arcade game. To mark the anniversary, Atari co-founder and Pong designer Allan Alcorn spoke with NPR to reflect on the game's development.

Fears of crypto contagion are growing as another company's finances wobble

After the collapse of FTX, many are wondering if another cryptocurrency platform called Genesis will fall next.

Ken Block, pictured here at the 2017 World Rallycross Championship in Barcelona, Spain, died yesterday in a snowmobile accident, his company said.

Rally car driver and DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block dies in a snowmobile accident

Ken Block, an action sports legend who also co-founded Hoonigan Racing, died on Monday at age 55 after his snowmobile fell backwards on a steep slope.

Liang from Beijing, center, looks on as his 82-year-old grandmother is brought in a casket to the Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22, 2022. Liang's grandmother had been unvaccinated when she came down with coronavirus symptoms, and had spent her final days hooked to a respirator in a Beijing ICU.

China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases

China's National Health Commission said in a statement it would no longer publish daily data and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."

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