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Lawmakers in at least three states will have less power to draw political boundaries, while automatic and same-day voter registration is coming in other places. New voter ID laws also got approved.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with professor Khaled Beydoun of the University of Arkansas about his Twitter project chronicling the lives of people killed in the Christchurch, New Zealand, shootings.

It's been a year since Loujain Alhathloul was detained in Saudi Arabia for pushing for women's rights. A PEN award for her and two other Saudi activists has helped bring their plight back to light.

The Kentucky Education Association is a statewide member organization and lobbying group for public school educators. Last week, KEA members elected the...

The United Nations refugee agency set up a facility in Maicao near the Venezuelan border, providing help for more than 300 migrants. The facility aims to expand to meet the growing need.

Rain may be in the forecast this weekend, but there's plenty to do around town inside and out.

The president said in a tweet that if Congress does not fund construction of a border wall, he may ask the U.S. military to build it. There is no apparent support for such a move on Capitol Hill.

See which albums and EPs fellow NPR music fans loved the most this year, from Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computerto Kids See Ghosts, Pusha-T, Father John Misty, Lucy Dacus and more.

On Jan. 17, 1994, a 6.7 magnitude quake rocked the suburbs north of Los Angeles, leaving 57 dead and causing more than $43 billion in damage. Officials worry LA isn't ready for the next big quake.

From engineering to economics, from painting to planetary science, the range of this year's class is vast. But the MacArthur Foundation expects them all to do big things with their newfound $625,000.