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While that's great news for the almost 10 million workers affected, 20 other states still pay minimum-wage workers the federal rate of $7.25 an hour.

The Black contralto put European art music and African-American spirituals in parity — and in her art, paved the way for generations of singers after her, both inside and outside classical music.

About 35 million Americans suffer some hearing loss, but most don't do anything about it. There's a growing effort to make hearing aids easier and cheaper to buy.

A café owner in Dearborn, Mich., sees himself as part entrepreneur, part cultural ambassador for his home country, which is more associated with war than being the world's first coffee exporter.

In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.

Americans expect a lot from the president — any president. Modern presidents are believed to control the economy, when the reality is that they have fewer tools even to control Congress or public opinion.

Clinton made it clear she's ready to incorporate much of Sanders' populist, anti-Wall Street message into her own campaign. She said "more dreams die in the parking lots of banks than anywhere else."

Detroiters could elect a Black Republican to the U.S. House. But GOP candidates face a skeptical voting bloc in the Democratic stronghold.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with House Impeachment Manager Stacey Plaskett, congresswoman from the U.S. Virgin Islands, about Saturday's last-second maneuvers and the former president's acquittal.

Protests on college campuses related to the Israel-Hamas War have many Jews nervous heading into the holiday.