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Wal-Mart and American Express have teamed up to offer a new prepaid card. The two companies say it will act like a checking account, but without the many fees that frustrate customers. Audie Cornish talks with Stephanie Clifford, retail reporter for The New York Times.

Trump administration officials say the move was necessary "to build a culture of child safety and accountability." But advocates say they fear the administration will use it for immigration enforcement.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, about the algorithm he created to track a possible serial killer in Chicago.

A federal program kills hundreds of thousands of wild animals a year. Documents obtained by NPR show that many of those animals were killed in places where no damage to livestock was reported.

Of the more than 200,000 women incarcerated in the U.S., a majority are women with children. Eight prisons allow women to keep their newborns for up to 30 months. A facility in Seattle is one of them.

Because the public health system mostly operates in the background, it rarely gets the attention or funding it deserves ― until there's a crisis.

With a historic snowpack starting to melt, increasing flood concerns in central California, there's an effort under way to capture as much of the water as possible in underground aquifers.

A Justice Department report finds that aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales illegally discriminated against job applicants who weren't Republican or conservative loyalists. The report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges.

As states brace for insurance market instability, some — like Maryland — take aggressive action.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Evan Medeiros, professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University, about escalating tensions between the U.S. and China and the consulate closures ordered by each side.