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Ned Parker has covered Iraq for more than a decade. But the Reuters bureau chief abruptly left the country last week after a report of human rights abuses prompted threats from a Shiite paramilitary.

Transgender people are concerned how rights may change under the new president. Many are hurrying to complete the process of changing genders on government documents before Donald Trump is sworn in.

All Things Considered host Audie Cornish talks with Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money team about the United State's growing trade deficit and how that's both good and bad news for American business depending on the industry.

Signed 20 years ago this month, the landmark trade agreement radically altered the way we get our fruits and vegetables, encouraging year-round imports from Mexican farms. That's why it's now no big deal to find, say, raspberries in winter. But critics say it also has trained consumers to value convenience over flavor and has dulled knowledge of where food comes from.

Richard Overton enlisted in an all-black battalion, serving in Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He loved ice cream, whiskey and cigars. "Today we mourn not just a hero, but a legend," the U.S. Army said.

Chicago has one of the largest concentrations of Ukrainians in the U.S. and many of them maintain strong ties to their home country — are bracing for the worst amid Russia-Ukraine conflict tensions.

Sharecropping, flu pandemic, Great Depression and two world wars are just some of the events Hester Ford lived through. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Ford's great-granddaughter Tanisha Patterson-Powe.

Thanksgiving myth tells us that the Pilgrims survived because friendly Native Americans helped them adapt their farming practices. Since then, it's been Native people who've been forced to adapt.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with librarian Vikki Brown about Highlands County Library System's mobile library, which just received a public service award from the American Library Association.

A new book explores the relation between a few key figures in American classical music and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century.