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President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding from Maine's public schools after a clash with the state's governor. NPR visited a rural school in Maine to see what's at stake.

The American Federation of Government Employees has called for 6,000 new screeners to handle the rise in air travel traffic. Renee Montagne talks to union President J. David Cox.

When he was 6 years old, Tom Sinclair wandered away from his family's campsite on Lake Superior and got lost. At dawn, he heard a voice that has shaped his life ever since.

The 1887 law governs the process of counting Electoral College votes and came under fresh scrutiny following attempts to invalidate the presidential election results on Jan. 6, 2021.

With the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as close as it is, the small percentage of undecided voters could have a big impact on the outcome.

America's urban search and rescue teams are facing financial and political pressure. However, their work has never been more in demand, as weather disasters become increasingly common.

The story of Motown Records is a quintessentially American story about the American Dream, civil rights and entrepreneurship — but it has a special significance in Detroit, where it all started.

Filmmaker, DEBORAH HOFFMAN. She produced, directed and wrote the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." In the documentary, which airs on PBS's "Point Of View" series June 6, HOFFMAN tells how she copes with her mother, Doris, now 87, who began suffering memory lapses in the early 1980s and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1991.

3: Actor BILL PULLMAN. He taught drama at the University of Montana, where he rose to department head at age 27. PULLMAN later made his acting debut in "Ruthless People." In 1995 he was featured in the films, "Casper," "While You Were Sleeping," and "The Last Seduction." He's now starring in "Mr. Wrong." (REBROADCAST from 6

San Francisco based Wells Fargo won its three-month effort to takeover another California based bank today. First Interstate agreed to be acquired in a stock transaction valued at $11.6 billion. If the deal is approved by regulators it will be the largest merger in U.S. banking history. The deal is expected to eliminate as many as 7,000 jobs, half of them in the Los Angeles area, as hundreds of First Intersate branches are closed.