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U.S. Catholic Bishops voted on a document discussing issues including whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should take communion.

The wildfires in Southern California continue to grow, whipped by strong, hot Santa Ana winds.

For some perspective on the current tax bill speeding through Congress, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about the last major tax cuts, in the 1980s.

Students are Howard University are packing up the "tent city" they slept in to protest conditions in campus dormitories.

Harvard University currently owns pre-Civil War photographs of two enslaved people — and a woman who says she is a descendent of the two has sued.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Carmen Solana, a volcanologist at the University of Portsmouth, about the impact of the ongoing volcano eruption at La Palma, in the Canary Islands.

Beto O'Rourke has begun his campaign against Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. In this third run for office since leaving the House, O'Rourke's chances at winning the seat for Texas governor are slim.

The leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States will meet in Washington, the first such summit in five years. They're expected to discuss topics like COVID-19, climate change and migration.

Turkish writer Elif Shafak juggles politics, faith and feminism in her new novel set in Turkey and England. Steve Inskeep speaks with her about her book Three Daughters of Eve.

After federal immigration agents sent Maria Luis back to Guatemala, her kids went into the Nebraska foster system. It took her five years to get them back.