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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with American Academy of Pediatrics President Lee Savio Beers about the mounting pressure to consider emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12.

In a new poll, 84 percent of Americans say they'd rather a failing school be reorganized than shut down.

The Chicago City Council voted Wednesday on a budget that includes a guaranteed income program. The one-year pilot will distribute $500 monthly cash payments to 5,000 low-income Chicagoans.

President-elect Donald Trump flipped the blue city of Dearborn, Mich., with a promise to end the wars in the Middle East. As his administration begins to take shape, some residents are concerned.

While millions of Americans are out of work or working from home, millions more are working at factories nationwide, and they have some lessons for us on what it means to "reopen" the country.

A federal appeals court in California has blocked the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" program, which required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their day in U.S. immigration court.

The American flag must be flown every day in a new North Carolina subdivision that's being built for people over 55. But can you require patriotism?

The outpouring of online rage following a health insurance CEO's killing has shocked some. Polling shows that people who really need their health insurance find it lets them down in fundamental ways.

Central Americans are keenly aware of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy toward asylum seekers. But the numbers of those coming from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala continue to rise, despite threats they may be separated from their children and spend months in detention.

Vice President Harris will take on her first foreign policy portfolio: working with Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to address the root causes of migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.