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Barry is now predicted to become a Category 1 hurricane shortly before making landfall Saturday, with maximum winds of 75 mph.

Our readers share ways to get your children to listen without raising your voice — sometimes without saying a word.

Thousands of Massachusetts residents have been committed to treatment for addiction against their will. Some families say locking up addicts in prison isn't treatment. Others say it saves lives.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with George Washington University's Seamus Hughes about a former Department of Veterans Affairs employee who is alleged to have defrauded the agency of millions of dollars.

A recent opioid sting caught 60 people, including doctors, accused of enabling addicts. Physician Stephen Loyd tells NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer how the sting could affect addicted patients.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Robert Wilkie, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, about a new program that launches June 6 that would allow more veterans to seek private health care.

Alabama must rectify the dangerous conditions this week or face a Justice Department lawsuit. Critics say plans to build new prisons won't solve issues that have been found to be unconstitutional.

Unless he files something for air tomorrow, or gets the itch to do on-air work again, this is the last day you’ll hear ideastream’s Mark Urycki on WCPN. He’s retiring after nearly four decades in local radio, in positions that included program director at WKSU and reporting for a country music AM station in Canton. Tell me about your first gig in radio. You were an overnight jock for an alternative rock and jazz station? I take it this was in college?

Homeroom: A Return to Learning This story is part of ideastream's special series examining the challenges and perils of returning to school during the coronavirus pandemic. For Bonnie Monteleone, teaching is like oxygen – without it, she doesn’t feel complete. But this year, the thought of returning to her classroom is keeping her up at night. “It feels like it is life or death,” Monteleone told ideastream. “If we don’t do what we’re supposed to do in terms of safety and wellness what’s the consequence to that?”

Migrant children caught at the border for crossing illegally into the U.S. are being secretly held in hotels for days, according to court papers. Critics say it's part of a shadow immigration system.