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New Hanover County’s teaching assistants are calling for the school board to raise their base salaries from $14 dollars an hour to $17. But the superintendent and district staff say their hands are tied until the next budgetary cycle.

The U.S. warns Russia it will face tough sanctions if it invades Ukraine. What is Instagram doing to keep its youngest users safe? A former NFL player died in police custody Monday in Alabama.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer Jaime Lowe about her new book, Breathing Fire, which tells the stories of the incarcerated women who are part of California's wildfire crews.

States across the country are starting to reopen. Some of them — like Florida, Maine and Colorado — have big tourism economies. But the coronavirus pandemic might affect summer vacations this year.

After his military retirement, Chief Petty Officer Joshua Ives sifted through more than 15,000 photographs he took in Afghanistan. He created a mixed-media project called Noble Eagle.

Thousands of foreign workers who entered the U.S. on temporary work visas received $1,200 pandemic stimulus checks in error, and many of them are spending the money in their home countries.

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.

Power is "a world-renowned voice of conscience and moral clarity," President-elect Joe Biden said of the former U.N. ambassador. The post will be elevated to become a National Security Council member.

Stewart is back as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard.He says he's changed as an actor over the years: "I am not averse to risk-taking and I don't judge myself." Originally broadcast July 2, 2020.

A new study adds to the growing mountain of evidence that says that poverty impairs people's ability to think.