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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling for efforts to limit Americans' exposure to toxic substances. But the Trump administration is also taking actions that run counter to this goal.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with historian Joshua Zeitz, contributing editor at Politico Magazine, about where military parades fit into the American civic tradition, and why he sees June's parade as a sharp break with that tradition.

Amy Connor's twin sons were born 10 weeks before their due date. One of her sons needed a blood transfusion that met specific requirements. They eventually found a match.

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed at least partially divided as the justices heard arguments debating how the lower courts should handle President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer.

Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.

The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote. NPR's Michel Martin asks Sean Morales-Doyle of the Brennan Center for Justice what that could mean for voters.

The Supreme Court hears arguments on Thursday in President Trump's challenge to a constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship to all babies born in the U.S.

Congress ground to a halt due to uprisings in both chambers. Sen. Cory Booker gave a record-breaking speech, and a fight in the House over remote voting for new parents brought work to a standstill.

At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was prepped for surgery to donate his vital organs. The surgery was stopped, and the man is alive three years later.