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Tennessee passed a bill package expanding gun access, including a measure allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools — despite calls for gun safety legislation after the Covenant school shooting.

Boeing is set to launch humans to space for the first time Monday night aboard its Starliner capsule. This mission is years behind schedule and over budget.

JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the U.S. That worries some critics, who see it as "too big to fail."

For the first time ever, NPR presents the fourth grade winners of the Student Podcast Challenge.

Eugene and Dan Levy hosted the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday night. Check out the award winners marked in bold.

More than six million people have been displaced, and medical services have been wiped out in many areas. Thousands have died.

People in Houston turned out for George Floyd's funeral. Floyd was killed in police custody last month. His death has sparked a nationwide reckoning about race relations and police brutality.

The life of Willie "The Lion" Smith was the stuff of legend, but his music backs up his boasts.

A messed up roll-out for the nation's key financial aid form has left guidance counselors scrambling to help confused families.

Book programs for freshmen — and sometimes a whole campus or community — are meant to spark discussion and unity. This year's picks at eight U.S. schools range from chilling nonfiction to poetry.

North Carolina officials want to stop funding to a Gastonia charter school. They also put a Charlotte charter school on financial discipline status Monday.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Julian Epstein, former House Judiciary Committee Counsel member, about what can be done if Attorney General Barr continues to defy the Committee.

Janine and Gregory. Jim and Pam. Sydney and Carmy? Critic Aisha Harris, a self-described will-they-won't-they grinch, explores our obsession with simmering sexual tension ... even when there is none.

Efforts to find the remains of missing U.S. service members and reunite them with their families have shifted from Vietnam War-era cases to older ones from WWII and the Korean War.

Virginia's governor and attorney general face calls to resign amid revelations they appeared in blackface decades ago. That's reviving a conversation around the history of blackface in our culture.

President Trump is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this week as they work on a ceasefire in Gaza. He's also resuming military aid shipments to Ukraine after they were temporarily halted.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

U.S. new car sales have been recovering for six straight weeks. They're still low compared with pre-coronavirus levels, but huge incentives have helped attract buyers despite an economic crisis.

Minutes before the El Paso shooting, a manifesto was posted online, calling the attack as a response to an "invasion" of Hispanics into the U.S. What can authorities do to fight far-right violence?

The Justice Department is investigating whether colleges communicate with each other about prospective students they accept through the early-decision process.