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The court heard arguments in a major case pitting environmental regulators against property rights advocates backed by industries with a history of pollution.

There's growing tension between the state government and big cities in Texas. Republicans in the statehouse are chafing at moves by municipal governments in large cities and are crying foul.

Four more states have primary elections on Tuesday. In Alaska, Joe Miller was virtually unknown when he declared his candidacy as a Republican challenger to incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. But then the Tea Party Express endorsed him after accusing Murkowski -- the only woman in the Senate's Republican leadership team -- of being "not Republican enough."

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the Rev. Rob Schenck said he knew the outcome of a pivotal religious freedom decision weeks before the Supreme Court released it in 2014.

Fans of Harry Potter erected a memorial to Dobby the house elf on the beach where he dies in the movie. Officials are asking people to stop leaving socks and painted rocks, which harm the environment.

Yes, that's right, somebody has developed AI for goose faces.

As election day in the U.K. comes to a close, NPR takes a look at incoming results, and voters’ reactions to the election:

The U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the way the Securities and Exchange Commission imposes fines for fraudulent conduct and requires that wrongdoers give back their ill-gotten gains.

The Republican Party is facing backlash over religious freedom laws passed this week in Indiana and Arkansas. The governor of Arkansas asked legislators Wednesday to reconsider its bill.

Conservationists' objections to proposed renovation plans for the 100-year-old Castro Theatre in San Francisco illustrate an ongoing debate about the future of historic theaters.

Conservationists' objections to proposed renovation plans for the 100-year-old Castro Theatre in San Francisco illustrate an ongoing debate about the future of historic theaters.

NPR's Michel Martin asks what reconciliation looks like. Her guests: Rich Harwood of The Harwood Institute, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention and genealogist Sharon Leslie Morgan.

A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership called ERIC. Eight Republican states have now pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win — and a blueprint for 2024.

The former rabbi of Washington, D.C.'s largest synagogue denounces starvation in Gaza, joining more than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish leaders from across the world petitioning Israel.

Amid high temperatures and a pandemic, green spaces are a lifeline. But new data shows parks in low-income and nonwhite areas are smaller and more crowded than those in high-income and white areas.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Liz Shuler, the newly elected president of the AFL-CIO, about her goals for the organization and the future of the labor movement.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss presidential candidate reactions to the Black Lives vs. All Lives Matter slogans, courting minority groups for votes, the Planned Parenthood crisis, and a preview to the upcoming Republican presidential debate.

Study after study shows women seen as overweight or obese often earn less at the workplace, an unfair bias that's been hard to reverse. However, men don't seem to face that penalty.

Dean Heller is the only Republican in the Senate up for re-election in a state that Hillary Clinton won. Latino union workers are a key voting bloc for his Democratic opponent, Rep. Jacky Rosen.

Stevens, who died Tuesday, was appointed by President Ford and served on the court for 35 years before retiring in 2010. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2011 about his memoir, Five Chiefs.