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A long political campaign for veterans hurt by toxic exposures resulted in the largest expansion of VA care in decades. Advocates are urging veterans to access retroactive benefits.

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision not overturn a temporary restraining order on President Trump's travel ban.

A young Guatemalan man and his son tried to get to the U.S. in June to claim asylum. Instead, the 9-year-old boy is alone at a facility in New York. The father was deported and is deeply distressed.

Gov. Jim Justice reached a deal with teachers, but the state Senate changed the terms, lowering the proposed pay raise. Steve Inskeep talks to Jake Zuckerman from the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

A U.S. military court judge who took over the 9/11 case two weeks ago has quit. That means a 9/11 trial is unlikely to begin by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Megan McKnight moved to Cleveland's Clark-Fulton neighborhood a few weeks ago. And while she says she likes living there — she finds her daughter's school effective, the commercial district walkable — there are some missing elements that could make life better. "Nicer housing," she says. "A lot of what's here is really old. And we could use a few more stores, because you can't get everything you need without walking or driving a long way."

Denise Mueller-Korenek, 45, has become the fastest human ever to ride a bicycle over open ground, racing in the draft provided by a dragster.

Pastors, parishioners, a coach, a librarian, a graduate: Authorities identify the nine people who were shot and killed during a Bible study at a Charleston, S.C., church on Wednesday night.

The sit-in at the historically black college is over after school officials promised Friday to meet most of the students' demands.

Bush is defending his brother's decisions, as Trump blames former President George W. Bush for failing to prevent the attacks.