Ethan Roberts

The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics and bread in a sharply polarized moment.

The federal government is currently shut down. NPR's network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted a controversial recommendation from outside vaccine advisers to tighten guidelines for the COVID vaccine.

El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos está gastando millones de dólares en publicidad televisiva en áreas metropolitanas selectas del país, con el objetivo de reclutar a policías locales frustrados con las restricciones de sus ciudades sobre la aplicación de leyes de inmigración para integrarlos en los esfuerzos de deportación masiva del presidente Donald Trump.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required regular purges of license plate databases and regularly audited how automated plate readers are used. He said the regulations would have impeded criminal investigations.

In an extraordinary Sunday night hearing, federal District Judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying federalized troops from any state to Oregon.