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A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

The former Hollywood producer is on trial for sex crimes in New York — again. Here are the allegations and proceedings that have led to this.

The school district is considering a new approach that shifts away from in-school therapy.

President Trump was impeached for inciting his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol. The violence and its aftermath will be an enduring symbol of his four years in the White House.

Despite some progress, the biggest blazes — the Palisades and Eaton fires — rage largely uncontained. On Friday evening, the LA Fire Department issued new evacuation orders for the Palisades fire.

Noel King speaks with Adeena Weiss-Ortiz, attorney for the family of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was killed by Chicago police on March 29. Body-cam footage is sparking new questions over the case.

There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about this year's UNGA, especially on military involvement in Afghanistan and the deal that has challenged relations with France.

What are the legal ramifications of racial and religious profiling to combat terrorism? Scott Simon asks two experts. Richard Jerome oversaw the civil rights division -- and police accountability -- while at the Justice Dept. Paul Rosenzweig, a former federal prosecutor, is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Austin city council member Natasha Harper-Madison about how the severe weather is affecting Texans.

Sometime today, millions of people will check out of this world and into the world of online games. And many of them will think nothing of pulling out real credit cards to buy virtual gold, swords — even humans.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said social media companies are "sufficiently akin" to a common carrier, like a telephone company, and should be "regulated in this manner."

The final episode of the first season of Marvel's Disney+ series dropped Friday — along with a timely surprise.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to student journalists at the University of Georgia about entering the field when trust in the media is low, disinformation is rampant, and what they see for the future.

"Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a tweeted statement.

That practice has sparked a legal challenge involving the identity of two police officers in Tallahassee that is now before the Florida Supreme Court.

Campaign finance rules say the PAC money can't be used for his campaign if Trump decides he'll run, but there are questions on whether any potential violations would be enforced by the FEC.

A new report indicates that the federal government severely undercounts people who died while being transported, detained or arrested by law enforcement and those who died while incarcerated.

Basic human impulses often conflict with saving for retirement. For one thing, people hate losing something — even more than we love winning. Behavioral economists call this "loss aversion."

Police and their supporters say officers involved in fatal shootings may face imminent threat of harm. The court will decide whether their identities should be protected under the state’s Marsy’s Law.

On his way to Ukraine for an unannounced visit last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke about upholding the rule of law inside the U.S. and overseas in an exclusive interview with NPR.

Meta's new app, Threads, may be the latest in a long-string of Twitter's competitors, but it appears to have an edge in the game thanks to its ties to Instagram. Over 30 million users have joined.

The project is called Worldcoin. It was co-founded by Sam Altman of ChatGPT fame. Its mission is to authenticate all the world's humans, one eyeball scan at a time.

The protests that led to the Egyptian revolution last year were organized in part by Wael Ghonim, who used an anonymous Facebook page to coordinate the demonstrations. In his new book, Ghonim explains how social media helped transform his country.

The Los Angeles Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara last week. Three months earlier, the team called Mizuhara "Shohei's best buddy."