The number of homeless people in L.A. County living on the street dropped last year, bucking trends elsewhere in the U.S. What does it say about efforts to combat homelessness, in the city as well as ...

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual ...

About 50,000 claims – or around 12 percent -- are for an illness or injury that falls within the government’s framework. The expectation, the lawyers said, is that these cases will settle first.

The NO KINGS rally in Beaufort last month brought out as many as 1,000 people to speak out against the actions and policies of President Donald Trump’s administration – including some, like cuts to ...

Veterans Memorial Reef is a non-profit organization that honors fallen heroes by placing them in an aquatic memorial so they may be laid to rest at sea off the coast of North Carolina. It has ...

City of Rocky Mount has received a notice of violation and a potential $25,000 civil penalty by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. The notice was sent after a DEQ site inspection ...

An judge sentenced Bryan Kohberger on Wednesday to multiple terms of life in prison for the murders of four University of Idaho students. Friends and relatives of the victims spoke at the sentencing.

Chris Camponovo, a former State Department lawyer, examines what a multi-national prisoner swap says about the Trump administration's third country deportation strategy.

The bill penned by North Carolina Republicans, Rep. Greg Murphy and Sen. Thom Tillis would make corrections to the Camp Lejeune Justice Act so plaintiffs could request jury trials, cases could be ...

The Trump administration's handling of what are known as the Epstein files has been creating a firestorm within the president's MAGA base. NPR recaps a timeline of the controversy.

NPR staff members share their picks for the best new video games of 2025, so far.

The new Republican spending bill will usher in a sweeping overhaul of the federal student loan system for both current and future borrowers.