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With the end of Oregon's special session in sight, some of its highest profile bills could see big changes.

Sessions praised immigration restrictions of the 1920s — laws that are widely regarded today as racist. His critics say he's stoking fears about the foreign-born population.

It's the end of the school year and NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with two teachers and a teacher coach about how the pandemic has impacted their school year.

The Education Department wants to change loan forgiveness rules, the U.S. attorney general mocks cry closets and therapy dogs, and Congress musters a bipartisan vote for career tech.

"It is financially tough," says Robert Momberger of Big Time Diner in Mobile, Ala. "Bills still keep on coming. So it really hurts to shut down, but sometimes that's the best thing to do."

Climate change's impact on a South Carolina community can be told through the stories of a dying forest, a fisherman with no bait and a queen fighting to protect a way of life on ancestral land.

A "bomb cyclone" is intensifying severe winter weather for millions of people across the U.S. The system is expected to knock out power and disrupt holiday travel.

Critic-at-Large John Powers reviews two recent DVDs, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Lost in Translation.

As we do every year at about this time, we look back at some of the musicians who died. The 2018 song montage honors musicians from Aretha Franklin to Dolores O'Riordan to Roy Hargrove.

NPR honors milestones — the pins people use to map out their lives and mark their accomplishments — that were lost this year due to the pandemic.