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Democrats have a new candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine: Troy Jackson. In one of the country's most closely-watched races, he'll have less than 100 days to make his case.

A Supreme Court ruling stripped Haitian migrants of their temporary legal status. Those with U.S.-born children face an agonizing choice if deported: Should they take them to a still-dangerous Haiti?

The 4-3 vote pauses new applications while the city develops rules for data centers and other exceptionally large utility customers.

At least 15 former elected officials and co-conspirators with corruption offenses have been pardoned by President Trump in the last year, undermining the fight against public corruption.

After two years of isolation and uncertainty, many American teens are struggling with mental health problems. But they're also discovering themselves — and their own resilience.

People in Fort Scott, Kan., depended on their local hospital for more than a century. In December, the hospital closed. Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with life without it.

Ahead of oral arguments in the Supreme Court over access to mifepristone, more than 150 people shared stories with NPR about how they used the medication — and how it changed their lives.

New research from the University of South Florida suggests evacuating nursing home patients before a storm increases the chance of both hospitalization...

NPR tours the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally.

The saxophonist and composer resisted his Japanese American heritage for decades. He now funnels that painful and triumphant personal history into a string of vital records.

In a special remembrance of Sept. 11, this week's Mocha Moms Jolene Ivey, Asra Nomani, and guest mom Roslyn Means share their memories of Sept. 11, and how that event changed their families. The moms also discuss how to talk to children about tragedy and terrorism in a post-Sept. 11 world.

Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences.

More than 172,000 nursing home residents died of covid. In lawsuits, some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety measures or told that COVID wasn’t a danger in their facilities.

UF is not the only university with a feral cat community. In fact, feral cats have stirred controversy in other countries as well, as a 2018 study by the University of New South Wales in Australia addressed its feline issues with a nine-year study that found TNR programs stabilize cat populations.

Tampa leaders are leveraging two public programs to address the lack of affordable housing and heightened investor competition in the single-family housing market. Data shows that the programs have been especially effective in bridging the gap in the city’s Black homeownership rates.

Some people detained at the facility have violent criminal histories. But data and news reports about the first month's arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz's detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.

Palestinian citizens of Israel say they live in an atmosphere of fear, facing a backlash from Israeli society and arrests by authorities since the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel last year.

The Trump administration has been targeting some permanent residents and visa holders with legal status and without criminal convictions.

The export-led industrial model that Germany has pursued for decades is now at a crossroads.

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.

The WNO is just the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year.

How law enforcement struggles to rein in illegal “adult arcades,” told through the saga of Spin Fun Arcade.

Complex computer systems that decide whether people get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now, changes to comply with Trump's tax and domestic policy law are inundating those systems.

Iran says its attack against Israel was a success. The House plans to hold separate votes on aid for Israel and Ukraine. Supreme Court hears challenge to law used to prosecute Jan. 6 defendants.

When it comes to taxes, T.R. Reid says other countries have done "what the U.S. Congress evidently can't do — they've made it simple." His new book is A Fine Mess.