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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with crisis informatics expert Kate Starbird about whether deplatforming is enough to stop disinformation and violent extremism online.

September was expected to be the month of mass returns to the office. Now the surging extra-contagious coronavirus variant has employers wondering what to do.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office said a deputy shot and killed 23-year-old Casey Goodson on Friday. Law enforcement recovered a gun. His family's attorneys say he was licensed to carry a firearm.

Suu Kyi's party handily won elections in November, but the military is refusing to accept the results, blaming election fraud for its party's poor showing.

Brown was shot and killed in his car by Pasquotank County, N.C., sheriff's deputies as they arrived to carry out warrants last month. His family called his death an "execution."

Three Major League Baseball players had to apologize for racist and homophobic tweets made when they were in high school. Sports publicist Lauren Walsh with NPR's Audie Cornish about accountability for social media posts.

National and state officials are investigating a collision that occurred Saturday in Schoharie, after a stretch limousine blew past a stop sign. The driver, all the passengers and 2 pedestrians died.

"People who have any brains" will avoid dredging up politics during the holidays, says one psychologist. But in our highly polarized era, family gatherings offer the chance for rare encounters with people who don't already share our partisan leanings.

Twenty percent of adults and nearly 40 percent of young people have at least one tattoo, but most keep them covered. Despite increased popularity and acceptance, employers just don't want to see them.

A lawsuit filed in California alleges a new type of workplace discrimination based on caste. Indians in Silicon Valley say this ancient social hierarchy has followed them to the U.S..