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A controversial practice to tie, hold down or seclude agitated students mostly impacts kids with disabilities. Schools say it's for safety, but opponents say it's dangerous and a civil rights issue.

President Biden has issued a number of immigration-related executive actions that mimic those of the Trump administration, and VP Harris has promised she'll continue restrictive policies.

Mike Dank, a technical engineer, started a phone collective in Philadelphia which is installing free pay phones in the city to make communication more accessible.

Eight days after the public found out about a whistleblower's complaint regarding the president, the acting director of national intelligence testified before the House Intelligence Committee.

A new study confirms that the vast majority of scientists who research the climate accept that the planet is warming and human beings are largely responsible. Yet a large slice of the American public believes that scientists are deeply split about global warming.

The letter was considered lost from the Massachusetts archives decades ago. It's on holiday display at the Commonwealth Museum — next to the state's original copy of the Declaration of Independence.

In Anne Arundel County, book lovers had a chance to get literary-themed tattoos from the Lucky Bird tattoo shop. Forty percent of the proceeds went toward funding for the library's branches.

California banned affirmative action in public schools in 1996. NPR's A Martinez talks to Zachary Bleemer, incoming assistant professor of economics at Princeton University, about the ban's impact.

Fifty years ago, Daniel Ellsberg leaked classified information about U.S. policy in Vietnam to the press. We listen back to archival interviews with Ellsberg and Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Julie Morita, a member of President-elect Joe Biden's pandemic advisory team, about the challenges involved in coronavirus vaccine distribution and public messaging.