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Brian Kolfage previously pleaded guilty for his role in siphoning donations a campaign that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border.

Syria's civil war erupted again on Monday, just one day after the U.N. ended its monitoring mission in the country. Reporter Jon Lee Anderson joins NPR's John Donvan to discuss the different factions that are rising up amid the current confusion.

Preply is collecting messages of hope and love from around the world to share with Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

Synagogues around the U.S. are having a lively discussion about how Israel is waging the war in Gaza, trying to balance care for the Jewish community with empathy for those suffering in Gaza.

Commentator Don Eberly says our civil society has languished...the institutions that make up this part of the socoety, family, churches, civic organizations are suffering from lack of membership. He says a big reason is because the government has filled many of the voids...but with the federal government moving to limit its role, we need to build back our civil society.

Autherine Lucy Foster's death comes less than a week after university officials dedicated the campus building where she briefly attended classes in her honor.

The announcement set off a hot municipal contest — and one big thought experiment. Mayors across North America said their cities would be the perfect home for 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion investment.

Noah talks to architect Cesar Pelli about the world's tallest buildings. Pelli designed what is currently the world's tallest: the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Those will soon be dwarfed by a tower in Shanghai, China. And Donald Trump has plans for a still-taller skyscraper in lower Manhattan. Pelli's own design for a 2,000-foot tall building in Chicago has remained un-built since it was unveiled in 1989. Pelli says there are a lot of hurdles for skyscrapers to overcome before completion. He says with extremely tall buildings, the architect must view the process as adding a story at the BOTTOM, not the top -- to account for all the services, wires, elevators, and so forth that go into making a building work.

Heather Cox Richardson joined Civics 101 host Hannah McCarthy at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH, on Sept. 29, 2023 to discuss her book Democracy Awakening.