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The mumps has nearly been eradicated in the U.S, and the risk of contracting it is small. But in immigration detention centers, that risk skyrockets. More than 900 immigrants have been infected.

Carol Burnett, who heads an advocacy group for child care centers, says the funds will help mothers enormously — "whether they're trying to get out of poverty" or "find a pathway to higher income."

The current forecast track shows Lee's center moving toward Maine's coastal border with Canada. But its effects could reach as far south as New York.

Fourteen people are dead and at least 17 wounded after at least two gunmen opened fire on a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

As President Trump vows to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the midterms, NPR asks Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center about the administration's track record on voting access.

Fraud is the latest threat facing victims of Hurricane Harvey, as well as the volunteers who are helping the relief effort. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Corey Amundson, a U.S. Attorney who heads the National Center for Disaster Fraud.

Preservationists are trying to protect the last vestiges of New York's Little Syria. They're seeking historic landmark status for a few buildings in Lower Manhattan. That's all that's left of what was once a thriving neighborhood, and arguably the center of Arab-American life.

As AI companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers, concerns grow that the industry is inflating a financial bubble that could harm the economy.

Brown pelicans are appearing on California's coastline. They are showing up emaciated, starving and weak. Dr. Elizabeth Wood of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center of Orange County explains.

A commercial building improvement grant of more than $45,000 for the Cherry Tree Plaza shopping center in Washington is back on the table, after the city council previously rejected the request.