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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this past week that he's rescinding dozens of pieces of guidance to law enforcement agencies across the country, including the local fees and fines guidance. Peter Edelman, faculty director of Georgetown Law's Center on Poverty and Inequality, speaks with NPR guest host Ray Suarez on how this will affect the impoverished.

Schools across the U.S. are preparing for students to be back in physical classrooms this fall. Now there's questions about how much "learning loss" students have experienced because of the pandemic.

Two months after hundreds of tons of toxic waste were dumped in and around the West African city of Abidjan, in Ivory Coast, the putrid stench and poisonous fumes have faded. But the international scandal has not.

A look back at the extraordinary creative souls we lost in 2018, from producer Richard Swift and opera singer Montserrat Caballé to rapper Mac Miller and Aretha Franklin.

The east coast saw record-breaking high temperatures this past week. Meteorologist Bob Henson talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about what's behind the early spring weather.

There’s been a surge in the number of whales being hit and killed by ships in California waters. The figure reached its highest level since the U.S. government started tracking the data. Reporter: Mary Franklin-Harvin

The recent stabbing death of 26-year old Peter Samuel Triantos in Arcata is the latest tragedy in a six-year period that has seen more violent crimes and…

Susan Andrews, Lupe Gutierrez and Jan Moorehouse report on local snow, and what the crab strike means to Crescent City citizens, and more.

The National Hurricane Center says Debby is expected to bring hurricane force winds and a major flood threat to the southeastern United States.

"There is a threat of land inundation for the East Coast of New Zealand," the country's emergency agency said Sunday.