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Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

Dancers who use a wheelchair or prosthetic limbs came together from across the country to Bloomfield Hills, Mich., earlier this month to compete in the first competition of its kind in the U.S.

According to the foundation, San Diego County's 28 senior centers serve only 8% of the older adult population.

Less than a month after the Amazon Labor Union unionized the first Amazon facility in the U.S., workers at a smaller warehouse across the street begin voting on whether to join the upstart union.

A California lawmaker who rose to national prominence by muscling through some of the country’s strongest vaccination laws is leaving the state legislature later this year.

Buki Domingos says she's not getting reappointed for a full term because she's been pressing the sheriff's department over in-custody deaths.

Lindsey Fitzharris' new book tells the true story of Harold Gillies, a British surgeon whose team worked to reconstruct the faces of some of the 280,000 men who suffered facial trauma during WWI.

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the "evil" of Canada's residential schools, wrapping up his week-long "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada.

Depp is suing Heard, his ex-wife, for $50 million, asserting that she defamed him in a published essay about her experiences with sexual assault. The case was filed in Fairfax, Va.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, about the pope's apology to Indigenous peoples for Canada's residential schools.