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Justice Department data show that the amount of drug-related assets confiscated since 2004 has tripled, from $567 million to $1.6 billion. Critics claim some law enforcement agencies have become "addicted to drug money" in their quest to fill their own coffers.

The spread of coronavirus behind bars is likely much more rampant than what's known right now. In prisons, jails and immigration detention centers, limited testing already shows widespread infection.

Sarah McCammon talks with Prasidha Padmanabhan, an 11th grader in Fairfax County, Va., about her efforts to get her school district to include more women's history in the curriculum.

America is experiencing its worst whooping cough outbreak in a decade. Experts say there's a cyclical nature to outbreaks like this but that the timing was altered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

NPR's Scott Simon checks in with WFAE reporter Steve Harrison on what voters in North Carolina are talking about as the elections draw near.

The acting head of the Bureau of Land Management is defending the controversial relocation of the massive land agency's headquarters to a small western Colorado city 1,900 miles from Washington, D.C.

A shortage of medical specialists means some patients face long wait times for care in the ER. And the problems is expected to get worse in many places in the coming years.

President Trump said in an interview he wants Republicans to "nationalize" elections. It's the latest instance of Trump's willingness to meddle in election administration.

Farmers survive by sending food to cities, and when they die their assets often leave just as fast, going to heirs living in urban areas. That financial drain helps accelerate small town decline. So, some states are working systematically to keep a fraction of that outward bound money — billions each year — at home.

A decade ago, dozens of Texas landowners fought the federal government's efforts to build a wall on their land. Those battles are beginning again as new walls are planned for the Rio Grande Valley.