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A new Texas law taking effect next month will allow local police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border. Some sheriffs aren't eager to enforce it.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Theresa Cardinal Brown, the Bipartisan Policy Center's senior adviser for immigration and border policy, about why America has struggled to fix its immigration problem.

In one of the most segregated U.S. regions — New York's suburbs — voters of color are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight with an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.

The Smyrna School District asks residents to approve tax increases for capital projects and operating expenses this spring.

Under Ballot Measure 110, instead of arresting drug users, police give them a citation and point them towards treatment. Over three years in, there's a debate about whether it's succeeded or failed.

Come on an adventure inside the research facility holding the Civil War-era document that could bar former President Donald Trump from the White House.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil Rights Movement.

The FDA will soon move to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products. It's more than a decade after research raised alarms about health risks and other worrying chemicals remain in the products.

With bakeries closed in Gaza due to the scarcity of electricity and flour, Nisreen Shehade has been baking bread for her family and other displaced Gazans in her tent.

A $120,000 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service grant will fund installation of 10 Motus Wildlife Tracking System towers and tagging of healthy American kestrels.