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Lawmakers are seeking a myriad of ways to address growing mental health concerns with children. One idea is to allow chaplains to come into schools to provide mentorship and counseling.

Officials say Thomas Creech's spiritual adviser will be allowed to stand next to Creech with a hand on his shoulder during the scheduled Wednesday execution. Creech has been imprisoned since 1974.

The bill criminalizes members of the LGBTQ+ community as well as its supporters, including promotion and funding of related activities and public displays of affection.

The number of reports of dead or dying endangered sawfish has risen to 39, with 15 bodies retrieved for testing, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.

Authors Beverly Jenkins, Jasmine Guillory, and Ali Hazelwood are renowned for steamy love stories that bring butterflies to readers everywhere.

Nearly 130,000 Montanans lost Medicaid coverage during recent eligibility reviews. People who are homeless are more likely to have chronic health issues and particularly vulnerable to losing coverage.

On Tuesday House impeachment managers delivered the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate.

Former President Donald Trump faces 34-count felony counts alleging that he falsified New York business records in order to conceal damaging information to influence the 2016 presidential election.

The sequel to the influential documentary 'Food, Inc' — which shone a light on the country's corporate-driven food system —features the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an organization fighting for human rights in Florida farms.

Alabama could soon have a U.S. House delegation that more closely matches its diversity after a redistricting lawsuit. For Black voters, the change has greater significance than who holds the seat.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff about his committee's report that could serve as the basis for articles of impeachment against President Trump.

A California tech firm believes that artificial intelligence can help communities prepare for, and respond to, quakes.

Scientists say they've found the remains of tube- and string-like organisms in Canadian rocks that are at least 3.7 billion years old. But findings like these are always controversial.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a Russian diplomat ahead of the presidential election. Rachel Martin talks to Rep. Cummings who thinks Sessions should resign because he didn't disclose it.

Steve Inskeep talks to John Negroponte, who was the country's first director of National Intelligence. He shares his thoughts on President Trump's early national security moves.

Airlines employ people from all over the world, including staff from countries barred by Trump's immigration order. Now they're hurrying to reroute flight attendants who could be affected.

Youth sports are supposed to be about fun and team spirit. But now, kids are training year-round and joining expensive travel leagues earlier. It’s costing families, and kids too.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, about the civil war that erupted in Sudan. A year later the suffering there isn't getting global attention.

TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer working in Beijing — until she picked up a banjo. She tells the story of the remarkable connections she's formed touring across the U.S. and China while playing that banjo and singing in Chinese.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point — we're predictably irrational and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.

Climate change is threatening many Alaska Native villages. Advocates are calling for a major overhaul of federal policy.

President Biden and former President Trump both easily won their parties presidential primaries in Wisconsin. Yet, they each faced more protest votes than expected.

There are thousands of cold cases involving missing persons in the U.S. But there are only about 200 forensic artists trained in a technique that could help solve them.

A decision to downgrade unincorporated Lee, Cape Coral, Bonita Springs and Estero's flood rating will prove costly to policy holders.

Under the bill, SB 7014, ethics boards won’t be able to initiate their own investigations. Members of the public would have to file complaints to start any inquiry and can only do so if they’ve personally witnessed an ethics violation.