Adrian Florido

Economic problems in Puerto Rico forced the island's zoo to close. That meant a big move for an African elephant named Mundi.

Mundi the African elephant was the pride of Puerto Rico's only zoo. But her fate became entangled in the island's recent struggles with natural disasters and a debilitating debt crisis.

Families of victims of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, hosted a vigil to mark one year since the tragedy that forever altered their lives and their town.

In the year since 19 children and two teachers were killed inside their classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the search for healing has been elusive.

There are still many unresolved questions about the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. As they grasp for answers, surviving families and the broader community feel suspended in grief.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with David Lorenz, director of the Maryland chapter of the Survivors Network of those abused by Priests, after the report on decades-long sex abuse in the Baltimore Diocese.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with director Daniel Goldhaber and actor and cowriter Ariela Barer about environmental activism through sabotage in their heist film How To Blow Up a Pipeline.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with NBA player Patty Mills, point guard now of the Brooklyn Nets, about his work in organizing the Indigenous Basketball Association in his native Australia.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Joshua Benton, senior writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, about Gannett newspaper sales and how news deserts weaken democracy.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with legal expert Randall Eliason about Trump's possible legal defense strategies.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Yohance Lacour, host of the podcast You Didn't See Nothin.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with author Leta McCollough Seletzky about the father-daughter memoir The Kneeling Man, highlighting the complex life of her father's role as a Black spy.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Bill Rhoden of ESPN's Andscape about the double standards baked into basketball culture and women's sports.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Nicole Auerbach, senior writer for The Athletic, ahead of the Men's and Women's Final Four games happening across Texas this weekend.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with cookbook author and activist Grace Young about her work to save America's Chinatowns.

Last year, the U.S. saw a record number of school shootings. Gun violence is now the leading cause of adolescent deaths in America. And yet school shootings continue to happen.

California's Reparations Task Force has to answer a thorny question: how to calculate compensation for the descendants of slaves. Kamilah Moore chairs the task force.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about demonstrations in Israel around Netanyahu's controversial plan to reform the judiciary.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Parkland student and March for Our Lives cofounder David Hogg on the fifth anniversary of the first march about the triumphs and challenges of fighting for gun reform.

The union representing Los Angeles police officers has proposed scaling back officers' duties. It wants to hand many non-emergency and non-criminal calls for help over to other city agencies.