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A custom Lego store in a Chicago suburb has raised more than $145,000 for Ukraine relief by selling a figurine of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and an accessory of a Molotov cocktail.

Eleven states have enacted transgender sports bans, though many have been snarled by lawsuits.

Fifty years ago, a toxic mix of dense fog and sooty black coal smoke descended on London, essentially suffocating thousands to death.

The bells of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., tolled Monday in remembrance of the four girls who were killed in a bombing at the church 40 years ago. Melanie Peeples reports.

From Mexico City's police corruption to S?o Paulo's squatters and air pollution in Santiago, Chile, Latin America's cities are struggling to overcome economic and social problems. NPR's Gerry Hadden and NPR's Martin Kaste profile some of the region's biggest cities in a Morning Edition series.

Author J.D. Vance emerged from a crowded Republican primary in Ohio, and now becomes the favorite in the general election in the GOP-leaning state.

A version of the dress Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz has a presale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million.

The 22-year-old American topped a competitive field Thursday in Beijing. Figure skaters from Japan came in second and third.

Many artists and art historians consider Romare Bearden one of America's most important and inventive artists. But he's hardly a household name. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that the National Gallery of Art intends to change that. Bearden is the subject of the gallery's first major retrospective of an African American artist.

The day President Kennedy was assassinated, Bob Schieffer — the future veteran CBS newsman — was still just a young newspaper reporter in Texas. But he got closer to that day's events than he ever would have imagined. In an interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, Schieffer recounts that and other stories in his new book, This Just In. Hear an extended version of the interview.