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Two students walk through the hallways of the main building at Sherwood Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025.

‘Con temor de ir a la escuela’: el miedo se apodera de las familias inmigrantes en la zona central de California

Las amenazas de deportación han causado ansiedad entre los inmigrantes, pero las escuelas en el Valle de Salinas están ayudando a consolar a los niños y aliviar los temores de los padres.

A snowshoe trek in the Adirondack Mountains on a classic winter day

Snowshoeing in the Adirondacks on a winter day with chickadees for company

The Trump administration has blocked the Associated Press from covering several of the president's events because it continues to refer to the body of water between Mexico and Florida as the Gulf of Mexico. Under President Trump's direction, the U.S. has renamed it the Gulf of America.

Court ruling lets White House ban on the Associated Press continue, for now

The Trump administration may continue — for now — to keep the AP from covering key events. A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order on Monday.

Protesters rally outside of the headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Federal watchdog agency intervenes in Trump's purge of probationary employees

U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has asked the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily reinstate six federal employees fired from their jobs and is considering ways to seek relief for others.

An apartment complex under construction in Temecula on Oct. 11, 2024.

‘Limited to no impact’: Why a pro-housing group says California’s pro-housing laws aren’t producing more

A passel of recent California laws were supposed to supercharge the construction of desperately needed housing. According to YIMBY Law, they haven’t even come close.

After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe pictured Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe fosters dialogue across time and cultures in a new album

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe talks about his new album "Hymns of Bantu," which highlights the healing power of song across cultures.

Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, on Thursday in Oxon Hill, Md.

Elon Musk says federal employees must either document their work — or lose their jobs

Federal workers across the U.S. government received an email on Saturday, with Musk giving an apparent ultimatum. The billionaire has used a similar tactic at companies he owns.

Noah Wyle plays Michael Rabinovitch or "Dr. Robby," the senior attending physician in a fictional Pittsburgh emergency room, in The Pitt.

'The Pitt' is a medical drama worth watching. Stat.

Each episode of the new Max series covers one hour in a single day in a busy emergency department. The show manages to feel sympathetic to the hospital staff and to the patients in their care.

‘Afraid to go to school’: Immigrant families in the Salinas Valley are gripped by fear

Threats of deportation have caused anxiety among immigrants, but schools in the Salinas Valley are helping comfort children and easing parents’ fears.

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