Governor Gretchen Whitmer is eyeing a $250 per-student funding increase in the money the state gives public school districts. That’s according to a preview of her upcoming budget proposal.

Rx Kids will pay $1,500 to Detroit mothers during pregnancy and another $500 per month during the first six months of their baby’s life.Dr. Mona Hanna, associate dean for Public Health at Michigan State University, directs the program. She said it’s “medicine” rather than “charity.”

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in Michigan, Black women are nearly three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as white women.

Trucks have been stuck at the closed border since October. Both countries are facing economic losses with no end in sight. The Taliban also banned all Pakistani pharmaceutical imports to Afghanistan.

With the race still too close to call, former congressman Tom Malinowski conceded to challenger Analilia Mejia in a Democratic primary to replace the seat vacated by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records.

An armed, masked subject was caught on Nancy Guthrie's front doorbell camera on the morning she disappeared.

NPR's Rachel Treisman took a pause from watching figure skaters break records to see speed skaters break records. Plus, the surreal experience of watching backflip artist Ilia Malinin.

The American University of Beirut has long been a haven for cats abandoned in times if war or crisis, but in recent years the feline population has grown dramatically.

Ben Ogden of Vermont skied powerfully, finishing just behind Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. It was the first Olympic medal for a U.S. men's cross-country skier since 1976.

In a closed-door deposition with lawmakers, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded the Fifth. Her attorney later said she would testify in exchange for clemency.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia about viewing the unredacted Epstein files that the Justice Department made available to members of Congress.

Britain's prime minister is facing calls to resign for naming a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as ambassador to the U.S. Police are also investigating if the king's brother passed trade secrets to Epstein.