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The Chinese telecom giant Huawei is winning the race to build 5G networks worldwide. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford about why that's a national security threat.

Chinedu Okobi died this month after he was tased by a San Mateo County Police Department deputy. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with his sister, Ebele Okobi, Facebook's public policy director of Africa.

Activists on the left are persuading local governments to end jail contracts with ICE, hoping to force the Trump administration to loosen its "zero tolerance" policy.

The union wants smaller class sizes, and more nurses, librarians and counselors, among other things. The nation's second largest school district last saw a teacher strike nearly 30 years ago.

The Federal Reserve says the big increase in student loan debt is creating a noticeable dent in younger people's ability to buy homes. But economists say millennials may eventually catch up.

As a woman ages, choosing when to try for a second or third child means weighing fertility odds against the risks of getting pregnant again too soon. A new study provides more data to help decide.

Hundreds of fire victims near the burned out town of Paradise, Calif., are celebrating Thanksgiving without a home. In Chico, where many evacuated, businesses made sure they had food on Thanksgiving.

There is cause for optimism — and for despair. One statistic is so distressing that the Red Cross calls it "a hideous milestone for the 21st century."

NPR's Noel King talks to Edward Conrow, director of Emergency Services for Brunswick County, about the damage caused by Isaias. As the hurricane was coming ashore, it spawned tornadoes.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were said at the time to be justified as the only way to end World War II. Seventy-five years later, legal experts say they would now be war crimes.