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President Trump promised to carry out the most deportations in U.S. history, focused on criminals. But now, immigration officials are going after asylum seekers who say they're fleeing persecution.

The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said. It was found in deep waters south of Australia's Christmas Island.

A Welsh petition for world peace sat forgotten in the Smithsonian for nearly 100 years. This week, it finally returned to Wales for its signatures to be digitized and its history remembered.

The move to legalize recreational cannabis in Florida has generated $100 million, the most spent on ballot question in U.S. history. Sixty% of voters need to answer "yes" for the amendment to pass.

Quilters have been copying patterns believed to have been used as signals for the Underground Railroad even though historians say they can't find any evidence they were used that way.

Though less effervescent than past, The White Lotus Season 3 serves up plenty of financial secrets, dark family histories and kinky hijinks as it shoves its characters out of their comfort zone.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Belinda Deneen Wallace, a professor at the University of New Mexico, about a new Pew report finding 1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. were born outside the country.

France's government has been toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament, for the first time sine 1962. Prime Minister Michel Barnier served the shortest time in the post in France's modern history.

The Justice Department announced charges in what officials describe as the largest health care fraud bust in DOJ history.

McKenna 'Mak' Whitham made history this season as the youngest athlete in the NWSL. Here's what protections young professional athletes like her have.