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How did the soda giant from America come to be seen as "local" in Africa? And what has the impact been on the continent for worse and for better?

A Democratic primary race for a U.S. House seat in Arizona gains interest from GOP donors. Donald Trump will be interviewed as a witness in the assassination attempt probe. A roundup of Olympic news.

For a few weeks in late spring, thousands of fireflies emerge at the Congaree National Park in South Carolina to blink in synchrony. Scientists are trying to learn their secrets and to protect them.

This weekend marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, officially ending the country's era of apartheid. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with journalist Redi Thlabi.

The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential.

The government provides HIV medicines free of charge. Yet in one Indigenous territory, cases and deaths are increasing at an alarming rate.

From Cincinnati Public Radio comes the podcast 'Backed Up,' which demystifies our complex sewer system and tells the stories of the people suffering under decades of mismanagement.

1,100 people killed on 9/11 in New York City have not had any of their remains identified by authorities. The medical examiner's office is using new technology to identify more people.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat due to climate change, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Alaska's public schools are being used as emergency shelters, though many of the buildings are crumbling.