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Over two dozen racecars will speed around the National Mall this weekend on a course that runs right past art and history museums, raising questions about the safety of the works inside.

There's a vigil Wednesday night in Mississippi to mark the birthday of Nolan Wells. The teen who was found dead after being left on a island would have been 19 years old.

Sunday's course takes high-speed cars right past the National Gallery of Art and three Smithsonian museums. Art experts worry about the works inside, but organizers say they don't expect damage.

A round of storms impacted the region on Aug. 11

The U.S. stopped issuing visas for citizens of 75 countries because it said they were likely to need public assistance. A judge ruled the policy illegally discriminated on the basis of nationality.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks legal scholar Kim Wehle about the ramifications of President Trump's newest executive orders targeting birthright citizenship.

For StoryCorps, we hear a conversation with an ice cream truck driver who holds the world record for the longest career as an ice cream distributor.

President Trump's proposed arch in Memorial Circle would intrude on dozens of nearby sites, says the National Park Service. But there's been minimal discussion of alternate locations.

The Trump administration is proposing new standards for Head Start, the nation's early education program for low-income kids. States would have a lot more control, and that has advocates worried.

If Watchmen taught us that you can use superheroes to excavate the cracked foundations of the American experience, Lanterns seems content to linger in the shadow of another HBO prestige genre series, True Detective.