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Activists have won victories like the right to inherit property and inclusion in the census. Parliament is considering a rights bill sponsored by an unlikely ally, an ultra-conservative Islamic party.

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are out with a new report detailing Russian interference in 19 European countries. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sen. Ben Cardin.

The federal judges gave lawmakers until Jan. 29 to show them a new map. The deadline is important because candidates for the November congressional elections begin filing for the primaries on Feb. 12.

Many people with intellectual disabilities can't talk or have difficulty speaking — and are unable to report when they've been raped or sexually assaulted.

Julien Baker's Turn Out The Lights brought her much-deserved critical acclaim and wider attention in 2017. Before its release we asked her to make a rare return to the Tiny Desk for something special.

The justices heard a challenge to an Ohio law, which allows the purging of voter registrations because of a failure to vote in two consecutive elections.

A teacher in Kansas wanted to teach his third graders how quickly information can spread, so he sent a tweet explaining his lesson and asking people to retweet. It now has more than 180,000 retweets.

North Carolina must again redraw its congressional map now that federal judges have ruled the districts were illegally gerrymandered to deliver seats to Republicans.

At least 13 people have died after mudslides followed heavy rains in the areas around Santa Barbara County in California, where the enormous Thomas fire has stripped all vegetation off the hillsides.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short about the president's meeting on immigration policy and a judge's ruling halting the end of DACA temporarily.