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An estimated 100 kids in Baltimore scrub car windshields for quick cash. It is not strictly legal, and many drivers wish the city would crack down on the practice.

A new study on maternal mortality finds that the death rate is up to 50 times higher in many African countries than in high-income countries.

Bills to abolish the death penalty are being debated in state legislatures across the country. In Colorado, a couple of lawmakers have a very personal connection to this political lightning rod.

The announcement follows a mass funeral for the victims of last Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. Relatives say they were offered soil from the site of the crash.

Under the Obama Administration, immigrants with strong family and community ties were not prioritized for deportation. That has changed and now and some families are seeking refuge in churches.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with White House spokesman Adam Kennedy about the path ahead for President Trump's emergency declaration to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

More girls are taking to the ice — not as figure skaters — but as hockey players. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with The Wall Street Journal's Anne Marie Chaker about her report on girls in ice hockey.

Record flooding has devastated farms and communities in the Great Plains. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Anthony Ruzicka, a fifth-generation farmer whose Nebraska farm flooded badly last week.

CuddleCots, a cooled bassinet, can preserve a stillborn child's body to give parents time to say goodbye.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with House Budget Committee Chair Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky about President Trump's proposed budget, as well as Democrats' plans for a budget of their own.