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In part two of our series on the financial abuse of the elderly, Judy Campbell of member station KQED reports on a multi-agency approach pioneered in Los Angeles, known as FAST or Financial Abuse Specialty Team. The group recoups money and prosecutes cases.

Guaranteed income programs are often associated with big cities. A new program aims to help residents in rural Georgia.

On this Juneteenth, NPR is marking the day in 1865 when Union forces arrived in Texas with the news that slavery had been abolished two years earlier with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Follow your dreams — that's what so many parents tell their kids. But at what cost? We caught up with two students who chose very different paths to study the arts in New York City.

A gunman entered the offices of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis on Thursday and opened fire, killing four journalists and a sales assistant. We have profiles of the victims.

President Trump falsely claimed that children are "almost immune" from the coronavirus, but a new review of state data finds child cases are up 40%.

A century ago, miners in Tonopah risked their lives to pull a fortune of silver and gold from the nearby mountains. Though the mines went quiet years ago, the town of a little more than 2,000 people is betting that another boom is on the horizon.

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

President-elect Barack Obama has filled about half of the openings in his Cabinet. A new Gallup Poll shows nearly 4 out of 5 Americans approve of his transition moves so far. But, could there be a price to be paid for this early popularity?

A new law opens up outdoor preschools to low income families in Colorado by allowing them to accept state child care subsidies. Advocates say learning outdoors has advantages over indoor classrooms.