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2023 saw a record number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The issue is front and center in the Republican presidential campaigns.

Virginia said it's keeping execution tapes secret to protect the privacy of the relatives of the prisoners the state recorded. But the families NPR talked with said they want the tapes published.

It's already against federal law to enter the U.S. without permission. In Texas, it's now a state crime too, after Gov. Abbott signed into law a state immigration bill with strict penalties.

Lt. Ridge Alkonis of Dana Point had been serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the negligent driving deaths of a woman and her son-in-law in 2021.

About 100 prosecutors across Ohio violated standards meant to protect a defendant's civil rights in criminal trials, an investigation by NPR and its reporting partners found. Some did so repeatedly.

In a lawsuit filed this week, a group of current and former Alabama prisoners say they have been coerced into providing cheap labor to the state and to private employers.

With the first Percival Everett-inspired screen adaptation American Fiction coming to theaters starting on Dec. 15, we're taking a moment to revisit his provocative and affecting satirical novel.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw’s ruling on Friday in San Diego preemptively blocks resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if elected to a second term next year.

A Texas jury sentenced Kaitlin Armstrong to 90 years in prison for the May 2022 shooting death of cyclist Anna "Mo" Wilson in a case that sent investigators on an international search for the killer.

This weekend in the arts: Teen girl punk rock, holiday lights + art + nature, art about food, a play about math, choreography by women and more things to do in theater, books, art and music in San Diego.