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The 32-year-old was killed Saturday after a car rammed a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Virginia. Two state troopers responding to the violence died in a helicopter crash.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas belatedly acknowledged more travel paid by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, while several colleagues reported six-figure payments as part of book deals.

States and cities are banning questions about prior pay in the hopes of narrowing gender and racial pay gaps. More employers are finding ways around the legal patchwork by eliminating the question.

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way, he developed a reputation as an all-powerful political wizard who wielded vast influence over laws affecting nearly every aspect of life in the state.

Illinois is now the third state to require graduating high school seniors fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, otherwise known as the…

Homeless young people can often be targets of theft and assault by homeless adults. Two 23-year-olds in Boston founded a new shelter to assure their peers are safe, warm, welcomed and supported.

Often, high school band music is composed by white men. So this school is seeking out music from women and composers of color who are writing music, but aren't being published at the same rate.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Mroz, former president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and a senior adviser at Protect Our Power, about physical vulnerabilities of the U.S. grid.

Radio producer Sasha Aslanian, herself a "divorced kid," spent five years documenting the lives of children whose parents are divorced. She discovered that while the courts and state governments are working to put kids first, divorce will always change their lives.

Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid.