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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with U.S. Sen. Padilla (D-Calif.) about legislation he has introduced to give essential immigrant workers a path to citizenship.

President Biden is hosting key lawmakers in the Oval Office all week, hoping to forge an agreement on infrastructure.

Some Americans actually remember the gas lines of the 1970s and how they contributed to the downfall of two presidents. And if you don't, you've at least heard the stories and seen the pictures.

The decade that's ending has seen mass migrations across the world. The perilous path that's taken so many Central Americans north to the U.S. is also now a route for Africans, Haitians and Cubans.

The pair of cases is the second time in less than a decade that the court has been asked to consider arguments involving discrimination lawsuits from teachers fired by parochial schools.

Every morning for more than a week, hundreds of balloons will lift off the ground at once in an unrivaled kaleidoscope of color at the largest celebration of the sport in the world.

How do our brains create meaning from the sounds around us? That is the question at the heart of a new book from neuroscientist Nina Kraus, called Of Sound Mind.

It's cricket fighting season in China, so NPR went ringside to learn about the centuries-old sport. Turns out, the bugs are really high maintenance, big money's involved and big mandibles matter.

The Prom is the latest hit Broadway musical to get a screen adaptation. Starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman and Andrew Rannells, it will be released in cinemas on Friday.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with reporter Matt Sullivan about the how the NBA is handling a COVID outbreak during its Christmas Day schedule.