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The U.S. Supreme Court sided with students in a case involving a cheerleader who dropped F-bombs on Snapchat while complaining about her school.

Supreme Court Rules Cheerleader's F-Bombs Are Protected By The 1st Amendment

The case involved a teenage cheerleader who dropped F-bombs on Snapchat. At issue was whether schools may punish students for speech that occurs online and off campus but that may be disruptive.

Who The Uyghurs Are And Why China Is Targeting Them

NPR's history podcast Throughline bring us the story of why the Uyghur people have become the target of what many are calling a genocide in China.

Several people utilize a beach, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Malibu, Calif.

California Uses Funding As Threat Over Coronavirus Measures

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he could withhold up to $2.5 billion in the upcoming state budget to penalize counties that fail to comply with mandates intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The preliminary results described Wednesday come from two patients with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma. This was just a first safety test, the scientists say, and was not designed to measure whether such a treatment would work.

CRISPR Approach To Fighting Cancer Called 'Promising' In 1st Safety Test

Attempts to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop a treatment for cancer seem safe and feasible in the earliest findings from the first three patients. "So far, so good," scientists say.

The Federal Building in Balboa Park, the future home of the Comic-Con Museum, Jan. 30, 2021.

Roddenberry Foundation Donates $100,000 For Comic-Con Museum To Boldly Open

The donation also coincides with the year of what would have been Roddenberry's 100th birthday. Roddenberry died in 1991.

Vice President Pence attends a rally this month in support of GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Savannah, Ga.

Vice President Pence To Get COVID-19 Vaccine Publicly On Friday

The vice president is scheduled to get the vaccine in an event that will be publicly broadcast as officials seek to calm people's fears surrounding the vaccine.

12 Of Europe's Top Soccer Teams Create New 'Super League'

A dozen European soccer clubs have announced plans to break away form their own "Super League." NPR's Noel King asks Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated why.

A sandstorm moves the Gobi desert in Mongolia.

Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

Even the rescue teams could not go forward during one of the fiercest of many sandstorms this spring. Herders have lost their herds — an estimated 1.6 million livestock — and their lives.

CRISPR-CAS9 gene editing technology allows scientists to make highly precise modifications to DNA. The technology is now starting to be used in human trials to treat several diseases in the U.S.

First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Gene-Editing Human Trials Get Underway

This could be a crucial year for the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR as researchers start testing it in patients to treat diseases such as cancer, blindness, and sickle cell disease.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland recently announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative in part, "to address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools."

A Federal Probe Into Indian Boarding School Gravesites Seeks To Bring Healing

The U.S. is about to undertake a national investigation into hundreds of American Indian boarding schools that operated for more than a century and served to "kill the Indian to save the man."

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