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NPR's Ailsa Chang and her team are reporting from Arizona, a key swing state that will help decide who becomes the next president.

As Peoria grapples with gun violence among youth, criminal justice advocates argue the county is resorting to controversial measures.

The Voting Rights Act requires some states and local areas to offer election materials in more than just English. But the support for voters is limited to Spanish, Asian and Native American languages.

Warm temperatures have Californians again bracing for wildfires. But to better prepare, the residents of Ventura say they need a clearer picture of what went wrong in the destructive 2017 Thomas Fire.

Lured by cheap land and few rules, people with limited income set up makeshift homes in remote areas, but often end up worse off, while putting their neighbors' health and safety at risk.

The closure of small-town grocery stores across the Midwest leaves communities with a hole to fill. A family in rural Benson is building a way to help.

The measles outbreak is not easing up around the country. The CDC reports 884 confirmed cases nationwide, three times the number of cases in 2024. In West Texas, where the outbreak started, pediatricians are concerned about potentially more children being exposed to the virus.

Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, recently said he is against the death penalty. Now a legal effort is racing to get requests for clemency to Edwards before he leaves office.

Steven Salaita was back on the U of I campus this week for the first time in a year. He’s teaching now at the American University of Beirut. But he says…

While he's not endorsing his opponent in the Democratic presidential race just yet, Bernie Sanders has a lot of work to do between now and the convention.…