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The Trump administration says that more than 1.6 million immigrants have self-deported. But there's also evidence of an internal migration from target cities and states and into quieter areas that feel safer.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is working to tamp down internal feuds and shift members to talking about inflation and other issues that he believes will help his party return to the majority.

Music journalist Kiana Fitzgerald reviews The Weeknd's new album, Dawn FM.

Last month, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools unveiled a new plan to help link teachers to affordable housing. Administrators hope it will help retain and recruit new teachers amid statewide shortages.

A Trump administration policy required asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico on their journey to the U.S. to remain in Mexico while their claims were being processed. A small fraction of those cases were transferred to courts across the U.S. More than 100 of them are moving through Charlotte Immigration Court.

Charlotte Area Transit System bus driver Ethan Rivera was shot and killed Feb. 11. The violence shocked the community, but safety concerns for bus drivers is not a new problem. According to CATS, over the past five years, there have been 57 operator assaults and two operator shootings.

With health care costs expected to outpace inflation, Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Kent Conrad, D-N.D., want a bipartisan commission to control future Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security costs.

Lawmakers are discussing several measures to solve the problem of unexpected medical bills, which can wreak havoc on patients' lives. Here's our guide to the current roster of proposed legislation.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., about current congressional negotiations regarding funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Kodak and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., are facing high-profile insider trading investigations, but data show the Securities and Exchange Commission pursued far fewer insider trading cases last year.

The former deputy attorney general was in charge in the final days of the Obama era and into the early days of the Trump era. Senate Republicans want to ask her about the Russia investigation.

Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe assured the Senate Intelligence Committee that, if confirmed, he would not apply a partisan filter to reporting or shade conclusions to please the president.

In Karnataka, people under quarantine must take hourly selfies as proof of staying home. The government is also publishing addresses of the quarantined. Legal activists are raising privacy concerns.

Will Kendrick Lamar be denied? Will protests prevail? Where are the guitars? Which performances will pop? Who will break down barriers?

The coronavirus outbreak has its own vocabulary. Here are definitions for some of the keys words and phrases you might be hearing.

The resolution calls for public hearings and allows President Trump or his lawyers to cross-examine witnesses. But the administration says its "rights remain undefined, unclear, and uncertain."

In a Grammy ceremony filled that mixed surprisingly intimate moments with familiar staged bombast, Megan Thee Stallion won best new artist and Beyoncé became the most awarded performer of all time.

Following the most recent mass shootings, NPR's Michel Martin asks Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, how public health officials view this moment.

The Philadelphia producer and DJ known as Diplo has built his reputation by combining wildly different styles of music. He recently released an underground mix of rapper M.I.A.'s critically acclaimed Arular to generate buzz before the CD's official release date. Joel Rose of member station WHYY has a profile.

After a car accident, Frankie Cook went to the ER to make sure she didn't have a concussion. She walked out of the hospital in the clear. Then came the bill.