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Families of transgender youth in Tennessee are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to block a state law that bans gender affirming care.

What to make of all the student loan news this year? We have three takeaways, and a literary analogy (it's NPR afterall).

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Denver Mayor Mike Johnston about the high numbers of migrants that have been arriving in the city. Denver has spent more than $36 million helping migrants.

A drugs lord's exotic pets got out of control in Colombia — it's the tale of the so-called "cocaine hippos."

Once upon a time, raising the nation's borrowing limit was considered a fairly routine vote. Today, Biden and the GOP are on a partisan collision course that risks landing the U.S. in default.

Folgers is the biggest seller of ground coffee in U.S. stores, but it has confronted a painful realization: its reputation is ... not strong.

If there's any justice in the world, a Barbie songwriter will take home this statue.

Electronic music producer and DJ Jennifer Lee — aka TOKiMONSTA — underwent two brain surgeries in 2016 that temporarily stripped her of her ability to understand words or music.

We have a complicated relationship with bears. Ask any hiker what their greatest fear is, and running into a bear will be at the top of that list. But we want to see them too! People travel from all over the world to our national parks with the hope of sighting a bear. Bears play an important role in our history, culture, environment, and economy. This week we’re talking about why you should care about bears.

A proposal from the Labor Department would make an estimated 3.6 million salaried workers newly eligible for overtime pay. It covers workers earning less than $55,000 per year.