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Attorney General William Barr is instructing immigration judges to deny bond to thousands of asylum-seekers who cross into the U.S. illegally while their cases are pending. Advocates promised to sue.

Carlos do Carmo helped popularize fado, Portugal's national music, and gave it a political edge when Portugal's dictatorship fell in 1974. This past weekend, he brought fado to New York.

In 10th grade, Ngoc Nguyen dropped out of school in Vietnam to support her family. After earning a GED in the U.S., she told her teacher how much she appreciates the energy he gave to his students.

Tens of millions of Californians are under a stay-at-home order, as that state counts more than a million COVID-19 cases and hospital beds fill up with coronavirus patients.

For 36 years, Alex Trebek quizzed Jeopardy! contestants on history, geography, hip-hop lyrics, "Potent Potables" and "Potpourri." He died Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer.

Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda has died at age 93. Unlike most managers who move from team to team, Lasorda spent his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers. NPR remembers his life.

Amy Coney Barrett is a devout Catholic and member of a charismatic group. Her Supreme Court nomination raises questions of whether the faith of a justice can or should influence their jurisprudence.

Troy Rule, associate law professor at Arizona State University, tells NPR's Ari Shapiro about the Federal Aviation Administration's proposed new regulations that would allow them to track drones.

Groundwater in southeastern Oregon is drying up. Farming, which uses a lot of that water, could decimate the region unless communities make drastic changes soon.

A Utah company is expanding the solar panel business to apartment complexes, where renters can benefit from renewable energy usually reserved for individual homes.