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Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

The American-born Giuffre, who lived in Australia for years, became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure in financier Jeffrey Epstein's prolonged downfall.

Leon Williams moved to San Diego in 1941. Restaurants and hotels refused him service. Still, he wanted to serve the city that wouldn't serve him.

Already, lower courts have found President Trump's removal of Democratic members of independent agencies to be unlawful. The Trump administration has appealed.

The bodies of four Israeli hostages are to be returned late Wednesday and more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed during the last week of the current Gaza ceasefire deal.

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

The Board of Supervisors publicly rebuked their auditor-controller, Karina Alvarez, Tuesday after what they said were major delays with payments and key financial reports.

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs says Native American and Alaska Native women make up a significant part of missing and murdered people in this country.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows growing support for some restrictions on immigration. Still, many elements of President Trump's sweeping crackdown are unpopular with Democrats and independents.

In the flurry of first-day executive orders, President Trump revoked a 2022 police accountability package, including a system to flag misconduct.