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Authorities are investigating a classroom incident between a white school resource officer and a black high school student in Columbia in which the deputy flipped the female student's desk backward.

Formerly, the test to get a GED diploma was multiple-choice, and taken with a pencil. Not anymore: Now, it requires computer skills some inmates simply don't have.

In Florida, an effort is underway to remove more than million cubic feet of muck sullying the Indian River Lagoon, considered North America's most biologically diverse estuary. It's a mess.

President Trump spoke to police officers encouraging what many say is violence. NPR's Noel King speaks with Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum about the speech.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with KCUR reporter Laura Ziegler about the shooting of two Indian men in an Olathe, Kan. bar. The FBI is determining whether to investigate it as a hate crime.

Educators School Safety Network says it has recorded about 50 threats a day on average since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, compared with about 10 a day on average.

The Department of Veterans Affairs isn't waiting for rural vets to get vaccines on their own. Instead, the department is using medical records to bring the most vulnerable to pop-up vaccine clinics.

While lawmakers in other states battle over voting reforms, Kentucky may pass a bipartisan bill that would keep some of the policies put in place last year that expanded voting access during COVID-19.

Thousands of people displaced by the deadly wildfire in Butte County are scrambling for places to live. FEMA is helping, but the sheer number makes the process a slow one.

Some Oregon inmates with mental illness are in jail rather than a state mental health hospital. A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday that Oregon is not providing timely, appropriate care.