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India has made new rules regulating the weight of school bags. Are principals — and parents — paying attention? One mother in Mumbai is conducting spot checks to find out.

NPR's Noel King talks to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the chair of the rules committee, which co-sponsored the first joint hearing concerning security during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.

The holidays will be unconventional, and Jack Bishop of America's Test Kitchen offers two dishes that follow that theme: a decadent seafood linguine and hazelnut–browned butter sugar cookies.

A primer on some of President Biden's big economic initiatives.

Struggling to keep up with a COVID-19 surge in Michigan, overwhelmed local health departments turned to schools, and recruited principals and teachers as supplemental contact tracers.

Even the rescue teams could not go forward during one of the fiercest of many sandstorms this spring. Herders have lost their herds — an estimated 1.6 million livestock — and their lives.

After the cancellation of the festival in 2020 due to COVID-19, the Cannes Film Festival returns to the French Riviera with an expanded program and a historic jury led by filmmaker Spike Lee.

A COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 12 is not yet available, but research is well underway and the first shot for some kids in this age group is expected in the fall, doctors say.

North Carolina voters are challenging Rep. Madison Cawthorn's reelection eligibility. NPR's Michel Martin discusses why with Indiana University law professor Gerard Magliocca.

Another line of thunderstorms is expected to hit South Louisiana this Wednesday, just over a week after an EF-3 tornado touched down in New Orleans and wreaked havoc on the town of Arabi in St. Bernard Parish.