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On the night of March 8, 2025, Mahmoud Khalil was walking into the lobby of his Columbia University apartment building with his wife, Noor Abdalla, who was eight months pregnant, when a man in plain clothes slipped in behind them. Before he knew what was happening, he was being detained by ICE. Khalil feared for his pregnant wife's safety. "The last thing I heard before being shoved into the unmarked car of ICE was them threatening Noor [with] arrest," he recalls.

When colleges receive reports of sexual assault on a student, a federal law dating back to 1972 is supposed to ensure that they investigate, and take steps to protect those students. It's called Title IX, and it's aimed at prohibiting discrimination in schools based on sex. The law says a university must allow all students to have a safe campus environment, and that sexual violence doesn't hinder a student's equal access to an education.

Solar microgrids are helping Western North Carolina to prepare for disasters like hurricane Helene, which devastated the region two years ago.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with the Brennan Center's Faiza Patel about the year since President Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.

The major party candidates for Congress in Central Illinois have significantly different views of how to deal with looming financial crises over the federal budget deficit, national debt, and Social Security. Interest payments on the federal debt are bigger than defense spending, according to the U.S. Treasury and Congressional Budget Office. They’re bigger than Medicare spending.

A lot has changed in the last decade when it comes to how college campuses handle sexual assaults.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with author Deesha Philyaw about her debut novel, "The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman."

In May, a fire damaged 80% of the trees one of the only two naturally-occurring groves of Torrey Pines in the world. The National Park Service is trying to help them recover.

Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences is set to close down thanks to financial pressures. The 198-year-old museum houses important scientific specimens and a beloved dinosaur exhibit.

President Trump met with AI CEOs at the White House on Tuesday and promoted a new government AI tool even as concerns about the technology's risks grow.