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The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities are unconstitutional. For Bloomington-Normal's three institutions, the ruling doesn't change much.

"We'll never have any decent people run for office again," said one lifelong Bladen County resident. The district might have to rerun the primary and general elections for Congress.

On this episode of Mother's War on Violence, Yolanda Wallace speaks to clinical director Sara Runyon from the Center for Prevention of Abuse about their Safe from the Start program, which helps children ages 5 and under and their families deal with trauma after witnessing community violence.

The name of the young ISIS fighter was not revealed in U.S. court proceedings, and the records are sealed. NPR has identified the fighter with the help of Iraqi officials and the teenager's family.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone about the ongoing U.S. women's national team lawsuit over equal pay and her continued priorities for the federation.

The Chicago Abortion Fund is one of many around the U.S. that cover travel and medical costs. But these funds are running out of money.

"Lost Caverns of Ixalan" incorporates Mesoamerican cultures, dinosaurs, vampires and pirates.

On this week’s episode of Out and About, Kerri Rae Ryan and Taylor Porter join host Jenn Gordon to talk about Corn Stock Theatre’s production of "These Shining Lives."In this drama centering around Catherine Donahue and her three coworkers, the new financial independence of women working in the post-war 1920s is both liberating and exciting. The women earn a comfortable living, painting watch faces using a radium compound that glows in the dark. This new vision of freedom is shattered when one by one the women begin to fall ill to mysterious ailments. They discover the source of their sickness is the radioactive paint used for the watches, and decide to seek retribution in the form of a class-action lawsuit against their employer, Radium Dial Company. Though the women are doomed to die, their struggle to fix what is broken demonstrates the power of the female spirit, despite the curbing of women’s newly won social freedoms during the Great Depression. Corn Stock Theatre's production of "These Shining Lives" opens Jan. 14 at the Theatre Center at Upper Bradley Park and runs for two weekends.For tickets and more information visit Corn Stock Theatre.

On this week’s episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois speaks with Scott Kanoff, Professor in the Theater Arts Department at Bradley University, about the upcoming production of “John Proctor is the Villain,” running April 9–13 at Bradley's Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts.

Dunlap superintendent Scott Dearman told the school board Thursday the district's 10,000- square-foot activity center and the five middle school and high school gyms can't handle the growing demands for space.