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People from Florida to Washington want a piece of Frank the Liberty Tree, a huge oak between 250 and 300 years old that was struck by lightning years ago and now must come down.

Immigration agents are threatening protesters with arrest while protesters are making noise and trying to prevent immigration arrests. The legality of the actions of both sides appears to be in flux.

Iranians are using Starlink to get online during the government's near-total internet shutdown.

The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.

Democratic school board candidate Rick Southerland apologized for not disclosing that a friend with whom he lives, works, and campaigns is a registered sex offender, but rejected the party's call for him to step down. Southerland and his friend said there was a complicated backstory to the case, which Southerland called a “wrongful conviction.”

Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former national security adviser John Bolton about President Trump's objectives in Iran.

Data obtained and published by the Deportation Data Project shows that in the first nine months of President Trump's second term, around 75,000 people arrested by ICE did not have a criminal record, which is over a third of all ICE arrests. Co-host Leila Fadel talks to Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, about what this data tells us about the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Seagulls can eat it all: everything from a hamburger to an octopus. NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with ecologist Alice Risely about her project, "Gulls Eating Stuff," that studies the birds' diet.

Details are emerging about how U.S. forces entered Venezuela and seized President Nicolas Maduro.