A teenager asks her mom: When can I wear the Hijab?
Basma Alawee and Danna Aljubouri, a mother and daughter who came to the U.S. from Iran in 2010, discuss the potential pitfalls of wearing a hijab in America.
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Rusty the red panda, who briefly ran free in D.C. in 2013, has unexpectedly died
Rusty the red panda escaped his National Zoo enclosure and was briefly free in Washington, D.C., in 2013. He has died at age 10 of unknown causes.
Vanderbilt's pediatric transgender care clinic is one of several under assault
Some clinics paused gender-affirming surgeries for minors due to pushback from critics. Conservative activists say they want to protect kids. Parents of teen patients say the care is saving lives.
Mississippi town with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue
A Mississippi town with a Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager.
A Princeton student who went missing for a week has been found dead, officials say
Misrach Ewunetie, 20, was found by an employee at about 1 p.m. on Thursday behind tennis courts on the campus facilities grounds, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said.
The EPA starts a civil rights probe into Mississippi's water woes
The agency said that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.
Are you voting in the midterm elections? We want to know what issues matter to you
NPR wants to hear from people who are voting in this year's midterm elections. Are you planning to vote in the midterm election? What issues are you hoping that politicians address?
A high school student's mural angers parents over what they say are hidden messages
Debate over the mural's meaning became heated during a school board meeting last week. Parents say the painting contains anti-Christian and demonic messages, while also being pro-LGBTQ.
The Pentagon will pay for service members to travel for abortions
The new policy and others come from a new memo from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin aimed at addressing concerns of service members about abortion access after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
A lawsuit could still stop Biden's student loan relief in it's tracks
Millions of federal student loan borrowers have applied to have their debt erased under President Biden's new plan, but any one of a handful of lawsuits could stop the relief before it even starts.