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Dave and Charlotte Willner started a fundraiser to raise $1,500 for the nonprofit RAICES. They've now raised close to $20 million. Michel Martin asks them about how they far exceeded their original goal.

Carjackings have increased by huge numbers in several cities and many of the suspects are juveniles. Communities are grappling with enforcing the law while also embracing rehabilitation.

Mikael Petrosyan of Children's National Hospital says gun violence against children is preventable.

Despite days of widespread incitement on social media in advance of the insurrection encouraging extremist Trump supporters to assault the U.S. Capitol, law enforcement was unprepared and overwhelmed.

President Trump's inauguration took in $107 million, more than double former President Barack Obama's record-setting $53 million haul in 2009.

In 12 states and Washington, D.C., people in the country illegally can still get a driver's license. The process is meant to keep roads safe, but may put undocumented people at risk of deportation.

The tracks Bob Boilen shares on this week's All Songs Consideredall have a cinematic quality, from a new Thom Yorke cut for the film Motherless Brooklyn,to Ride's best new album in 20 years.

At their core, novelist Dan Brown's best-selling books are treasure hunts, much the like the ones his father, a math teacher, arranged for him and his siblings. The Lost Symbol continues the tale of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who is plunged into the secretive world of Freemasons.

Many teachers still rely on this centuries-old calculating device to provide a hands-on approach to math.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced settlements in two long-running cases against the IRS, saying, "There's no excuse" for the agency's treatment of the groups, which sought tax-exempt status.