In a time of high political divisions across the country, two former politicians from opposite sides of the aisle are trying to reach across the divide.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Daniel Durkin, founder of the University of Mississippi's Center for Collegiate Gambling, about gambling among students and the rise of gambling addictions.

In orbit, power is free. But everything else is expensive.

A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive order calling for the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment.

Construction is underway on a $6 million expansion of Greenbelt Landing at Mud Island, adding riverboat docking and upgrading park infrastructure to improve access to the Mississippi River.

All children, regardless of immigration status, have the right to a free K-12 public education. But without birthright citizenship, access to schools and colleges could get complicated. There are currently bills moving through the Tennessee state legislature that propose tracking K-12 students' legal status.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with filmmakers Suzannah Herbert and Darcy McKinnon about their new film, "Natchez," about the Mississippi town's antebellum tourism industry.

Memphian Kathy Barnes-Lou cared for her mother for 14 years before her death. She learned that caregiving can bring life's purpose into focus, even as it grinds you down.

A small Tennessee town hopes to stop the construction of a facility that has a federal contract to refine depleted uranium into a metallic form the government needs to build nuclear weapons.

The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools.