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Search ArticlesA stranger helped a mother and son stuck in a current in Lake Michigan
Published September 4, 2026 at 7:14 PM EDT SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Time now for My Unsung Hero, our series from the team at the Hidden Brain podcast. My Unsung Hero tells the stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. Today's story comes from Tracy Zito. In the summer of 2010, Zito and her family were vacationing near Lake Michigan. One morning, Zito took her niece, her nephew and her three kids to the beach.
Musician Sara Bareilles talks about the importance of crying in her life
Published September 4, 2026 at 7:15 PM EDT AILSA CHANG, HOST: Each week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Sara Bareilles is out with a new album and documentary, both titled "Good Grief." The project is partly about processing the deaths of two of her close friends. Bareilles talked with Wild Card host Rachel Martin about her relationship to crying.
The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
NPR | By Jewel Bright Published September 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM EDT LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution aimed at changing the way Africa and other regions are represented on world maps. The "Correct the Map" resolution, introduced by Togo on behalf of the African Group and supported by the African Union, was adopted on Friday by 164 votes to one, with six countries abstaining. The United States was the only country to vote against it.
4 things investigators learned about the dysfunction at Trump's Labor Department
Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter sent every weekday morning. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who served as President Trump's Labor Secretary until she resigned in April, violated her own department's policy prohibiting harassment in the workplace, according to a new report by the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG), released Thursday.
Psychosis can be difficult to recognize and even harder to understand
Published September 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM EDT The trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy has raised difficult questions about postpartum psychosis and whether someone experiencing a profound break from reality can behave in ways that would otherwise be completely unthinkable. Dr. Reena Kapoor, a forensic psychiatrist and director of Yale's Law and Psychiatry division, says psychosis is a mental state in which a person loses touch with reality.
At Minnesota's state fair, crop artists depict the struggle over immigration enforcement
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This week in science: Archaeology fakes, hurricanes and lizards, and heat health effects
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'The health system in Nepal is not prepared for this'
"There's nothing left there," says Shushma Bhusal, the regional lead for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. "There's no village, no sign of anyone there. A lot of houses have just been washed off." Bhusal is describing parts of Bidur municipality after the flood. Before disaster struck, it was a bustling place, home to about 60,000 people. Hundreds of homes and businesses hugged the Trishuli River, which cuts a winding path through the Nepali Himalayas.
'Hidden tribunals:' Immigration court due process in tumult with new locations
Immigrants are being told last minute about new in-person hearings at previously undisclosed courtroom locations. That's according to five immigration attorneys who reviewed notices or observed the hearings and spoke to NPR about them. The last-minute notifications appear to be another tactic in a broader strategy from the Trump administration to short-circuit immigrants' already limited due process options to speed up arrests and deportations.
CT sees rise in unhoused children compared to start of school last year
Published September 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM EDT nicoletaionescu / Getty Images FILE: Over the course of the last school year, nearly 5,000 students experienced some form of homelessness, identified through the schools’ McKinney-Vento liaisons. The vast majority of unhoused students are doubled up and living with other families, according to Sarah Fox, Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.