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For some students who attended Robb Elementary in Texas, it will be the first time back in classrooms since a gunman killed 21 people at their school in May.

Fewer than 10% of all Paycheck Protection Program loans remain unforgiven, and the majority of those belong to one-person businesses — companies the program most intended to help.

California's Reparations Taskforce has issued its final recommendations for a state reparations program for the descendants of slaves. State lawmakers must now decide whether to adopt any of them.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Tomasz Jedrowski about his debut novel, Swimming in the Dark, a coming-of-age story based in communist Poland.

The Biden administration is trying to dramatically change how and where oil and gas drilling occurs on federal land, which is getting mixed reviews in longtime boom towns like Farmington, N.M.

The disappearance of the New York Times sports section is only the latest change in how news outlets are covering sports. NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Richard Deitsch, a media reporter at The Athletic.

It's been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and polls show that a majority of Americans still believe Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy, not a lone assassin. Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act, explores what keeps these conspiracy theories alive.

One of India's most squalid slums sits on extremely valuable property. The government has a plan to let private developers build projects for the rich in exchange for free housing, schools and health clinics for the poor. But many long-time residents oppose the plan.

Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.

The Philadelphia rapper and singer is known for her playful side, but she widens her subject matter on World Wide Whack, with emotions ranging from ecstatic happiness to the deepest despair.