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On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers — mostly young, immigrant women — lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City. On the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, people around the country are remembering the victims, and the labor legacy they inspired.

Kodak and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., are facing high-profile insider trading investigations, but data show the Securities and Exchange Commission pursued far fewer insider trading cases last year.

Joe Biden has promised to reverse the Trump administration's most restrictive immigration policies. But he did not include immigration as one of his four core priorities.

In an interview with NPR, the former president offers some of his most wide-ranging remarks on the outcome of the election and says Trump will fail in "denying reality."

"The claims are baseless, and at this point folks are grasping at straws," said one secretary of state, of the Trump campaign's legal strategy.

The president is pledging "unity," but the word means different things to different people. For him, it appears to be about tone, not necessarily direction.

In American Indicators, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lisa Winton, an owner of Winton Machine Co. in Suwanee, Ga., about how her industry has been affected by the pandemic recession.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney sujatha baliga about whether restorative justice principles are useful after a shooting incident or killing involving a police officer.

Immigrant advocates want those asylum protections restored quickly, erasing Trump-era restrictions. "Women, children, families are being sent back to the very dangers that they fled," one lawyer says.

Jess Clark, host of Louisville Public Media's podcast 'Dig', examines how alleged abuse by school staff went unaddressed for nearly 18 years in Louisville.

David Greene talks to Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi about Kirstjen Nielsen resigning as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. NPR's Domenico Montanaro weighs in.

As Daniel Perez gears up for his final session as Florida's House Speaker, he talks about the timing stand-off on Congressional redistricting, property taxes and more.

The signs of Republican pushback come as President Trump has pursued a campaign of mass deportations and crackdown on migration from certain countries.

Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, told NPR's Juana Summers he stopped eating and drinking before his record-breaking speech.

Inside Congress, lawmakers describe an institution under strain from polarization and constant pressure.

An American journalist wounded in an Israeli tank strike in Lebanon returns home to press the U.S. government to investigate the incident, which killed a Reuters reporter, as a targeted attack.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor.

A ballot measure in San Antonio would strip the police union of its collective bargaining rights. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Oji Martin, co-founder of Fix SAPD, which wants voters to approve it.

A new report says military families are relying more on food banks and other emergency aid, partly because military spouses lost their jobs or had their hours cut during the pandemic.

Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. But the process is still in the early days.

Republicans have produced few examples of fraud — and they're seen as out of proportion to sweeping changes that seek to reshape the way many Texans vote.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with children's television creator Chris Nee about her new show, We The People, out on Netflix today.

Thursday's terrorist attack left at least 13 U.S. service members and at least 60 Afghan civilians dead. It came less than a week before an Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. forces from the country.

David Greene talks with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of the Iowa caucuses.

A bungled process led executive producer Mike Richards to be announced as the next host of Jeopardy! Now, an unsurprising rolling disaster has led to the announcement that he will not, in fact, host.