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NPR's Scott Simon tells the story of young football players just 8 and 9 years old who decided to take a knee along with their coaches and what happened next.

The NAACP is threatening legal action to block a Nebraska law that divides Omaha's public schools into three separate districts, organized along racial lines.

Rick Heidner owns the third-largest video gaming terminal operator in Illinois

The White House will soon send Congress its proposal to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A Colorado town that hosts a federal and state prison debate taking in the detainees.

Another measure would prohibit small single-use plastic bottles at hotels.

Even though two 2020 election workers in Fulton County, Ga., endured an onslaught of threats and harassment following baseless fraud claims, people there are eager to serve as poll workers this year.

The Community Health Care Clinic in Normal is now marking its 30th anniversary. The mission is the same as on opening day even as they’ve greatly expanded in size and scope of services provided.

Heartland is set to regain funding in most programs from last year, following the state's 1% increase in community college funding, but will lose a healthcare training grant.

As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United States, barrels of life-saving water for wayward migrants traveling on foot have vanished.

Most bills need to pass out of committee by week’s end