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President Trump plans to unveil a new immigration plan Thursday. Its central premise is shifting the U.S. to a merit-based system.

Front-line workers in Houston, Seattle and New York City tell NPR about their experiences in hospitals over the last six months. "2020 can't keep going like this," one doctor says.

Amid bipartisan pushback on the administration's policy shift in the Mideast the State Department's special envoy for Syria faces tough questions from senators on the decision to pull those troops.

USDA forecasts the smallest potato harvest since 2010 this year, down 6.1% from last year due to bad weather. Farmers and buyers explain impacts at a time when demand for french fries is surging.

The coronavirus doesn't discriminate in who it infects. But some doctors say the U.S. health care system's pandemic response is already showing familiar patterns of bias.

Under court order, the government has been working to reunify all children separated from parents at the border, but the biggest challenge has been finding parents already deported.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Vauhini Vara of The Atlantic about her recent reporting on the decline of female leadership in corporate America.

The National Weather Service warned of a "very dangerous" cold air mass, prompting governors to declare emergencies and school districts to shut down.

The U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip said its employees were among 18 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school. Israel said the school was being used by Hamas.

The death toll in Gaza reached 30,000 this past week, as airstrikes continued and the U.S. conducted its first aid drop while Israel continues to consider a proposed cease-fire deal.