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One year into unprecedented U.S. policy, immigration authorities have transformed the prospects for those seeking asylum protection at the U.S. southern border.

15-year-old fire survivor Abel Rivera's home in Altadena burned down in January, and he lost everything — including his medal for finishing the 2024 LA Marathon.

Americans have lost their mobility, the thing that once made the country distinctive, open and prosperous, writes Yoni Appelbaum in his new book, Stuck. He spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Some people made a pile of money off GameStop's wild ride before the bottom fell out. Others will take big losses. What are the lessons from the recent market mayhem for everyday investors?

Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was exonerated after 28 years behind bars.

A U.S. citizen in Texas lost his voter registration after a federal screening system wrongly labeled him a noncitizen.

Chloe Fourreau, a Ph.D. student in Japan, went hunting for an elusive and overlooked marine worm, which lives in corals off the country's Pacific coast. She found much more than she was looking for.

A ranch and a non-profit teamed up to pilot a program that's providing chickens to a South Coast community in an effort to support the food system more broadly.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast five years ago, it sent a 30-foot-high wall of water ashore the coast of Mississippi. Sharon Hanshaw, who lost her home and beauty shop in Biloxi, says she's fighting for equitable development for her impoverished community.

Tickets cost thousands for what organizers were calling "the cultural event of the decade." But when visitors arrived on Grand Exuma, they found a tent city without enough power, security, or food.