Sarah McCammon

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Adrian Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn, members of the band Bandits on the Run and stand-out entrants in this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

When fireworks go off in the vicinity of birds, the results can be fatal. Stick to commercial shows, experts say.

For her new book, Lisa Taddeo spent nearly a decade immersed in the sex lives of three women. She says desire is one of the things we think about the most, and it's time to talk about women's desires.

Twenty Democrats running for the 2020 presidential nomination are addressing a forum on abortion rights in South Carolina.

Natalie Lynch spent the last two weeks of her pregnancy in a prison cell, mostly alone. As female incarceration rates rise, some states are banning solitary confinement of pregnant women.

President Trump announced the departure in a tweet on Thursday, calling Sanders "a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job!"

An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that men and women hold similar views on abortion overall, but Republican women are more opposed to abortion rights than Republican men.

A new NPR/Marist Poll takes a look at how Americans view issues including abortion rights. The poll shows most Americans support abortion rights, but with some limitations.

"We must do more than give our thoughts and prayers; we must give Virginians the action they deserve," Northam said of the shooting at a municipal complex in which 12 victims and the suspect died.

As investigators discover more details into Friday's shooting in Virginia Beach, residents continue to process what happened, including places of worship.

At least a dozen victims are dead after a shooting at a Virginia Beach, Va., municipal center Friday afternoon. The shooter is also dead.

At least 11 people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a municipal office building in Virginia Beach, Va. The suspect, a city employee, is also dead.

With hours to go before the expiration of a state license that allows a Missouri health center to perform abortions, clinics across state lines say they are preparing for an influx of patients.

The clinic in Saint Louis is suing to stay open. If it closes, Missouri would be the first state to eliminate any legal abortion access since the procedure was legalized more than 40 years ago.

Missouri is days away from being without a clinic that provides abortions. The state's Republican governor has spoken out to express concerns about the clinic's safety record.

Planned Parenthood says it might have to stop providing abortion services in Missouri. That would make Missouri the first state in the country without a clinic that performs abortions.

A handful of states each have one remaining clinic that performs abortions. Unless a judge intervenes, health officials will force a Missouri facility to stop offering the procedure this week.

A growing number of states are passing laws banning abortion in the early stages of pregnancy in hopes of rolling back Roe v. Wade.

The letter, written after Alabama passed a restrictive abortion law, says, "The value of human life is not determined by the circumstances of one's conception or birth."

Coordinated protests in response to a raft of new state laws restricting abortion took place across the U.S. on Tuesday.