Disabled kids make up the largest group in foster care. They have the worst outcomes. They stay in foster care longest. They're the most likely to die.

After breaking her back in a fall, she helped start Infinity Dance Theater, and found that her wheelchair was a tool, not a hindrance.

Lawmakers passed bipartisan legislation to pay for peer counseling addiction services in 2021. The cost of the program rapidly exploded.

Housing affordability challenges are spreading to higher income brackets, according to new research, which found one in five renters struggled last year to pay for their housing in full and on time.

State officials are planning a third-party audit of a publicly funded group that authorized a short-lived “public Christian school” and a forensic audit and investigation of a large homeschool enrichment program.

With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties and forging unexpected alliances.

A spokesman says police have identified a suspect.

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.

Will Project Taurus create jobs? Generate income? How much power and water will it use? Your questions, answered.

Fencing has gone up around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after the Trump-aligned board voted to close the performing arts center for repairs

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...

The City of Denver and civil rights groups argued that sightings of ICE agents at polling places are having a chilling effect.

By the time mandatory December lease sales are finished, arounds 400,000 acres of land in Colorado will have been offered for exploration

ICE's detention capacity in Colorado is nearly doubling as arrests surge and scrutiny mounts.

Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.

Germany's populist, far-right Alternative for Germany party has declared victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt after more than doubling its share of the vote in the first of several regional elections this fall.

Marx’s All Things Possible Florida model uses private funds for cop pay and surveillance tools without public oversight

Requests for advice from women with maternal mental health conditions, as well as health providers who care for them, have surged.

Among the hundreds still missing on Nepal's border with China are Hindus from India and beyond, participating in a journey of devotion to a sacred mountain.

An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.

USA TODAY exposed troubling Flock camera search patterns across the country. Flock now blocks release of the data that made it possible.

Survivors hope their advocacy for a bill passed in Colorado can be a model for other states after a jail official was accused of viewing strip-search videos more than 3,000 times.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a lawsuit opposing new rules on mail-in balloting.

Colorado election officials say legal uncertainty shrouds the potential impact of Trump’s executive order on mail ballots.

Podcast · WNYC Studios & OSM Audio · In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, ...

Colorado Republicans have long grappled with the future direction of the party. Now some say they've had enough.

U.S. officials say the ever-growing population of wild horses that roam federal lands in Colorado is depleting natural resources. But some activists say efforts to remove the horses are inhumane.

Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

It’s the first wave of terminations under new federal work requirements. And it may portend what’s to come for the rest of the country.

A Trump assistant asked officials from five agencies to join a call “prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

Millions of people in Europe stepped outside Wednesday to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal.

The earthquake killed at least 181 people and left 2,595 injured, according to Colombian authorities. At least 195 remained missing, but civilian-run databases put that number closer to 4,000.

A new stadium is on the way, and some residents worry another era of "urban renewal" is too.

Medicaid will have new work requirements next year. But some people with disabilities, who already work, say they'd like to work more, but risk losing their Medicaid coverage if they earn too much.