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The University of Mississippi is making an ongoing effort to remove potentially divisive and racially charged symbols to try and make the campus more welcoming, but not everybody welcomes the changes.

A prominent ultra-conservative figure says face veils for women are not mandatory. Now everyone is weighing in on the hottest topic in the kingdom.

A new project places little kayaks filled with aquatic plants under latrines in floating homes on Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake. So how do the toilets clean the wastewater?

Renee Montagne talks to John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction. He recently released a report highlighting significant waste, fraud and abuse in the U.S. funded program.

The White House is endorsing a plan that would allow teachers and other school employees to be armed. It does not call for higher age limits for would-be gun buyers.

NPR's Michele Kelemen, who covers the State Department, talks to Rachel Martin about events leading up to the announcement.

Bunny Marlon Bundo is featured in a book by the vice president's daughter Charlotte and wife, Karen. But even pets in Washington cannot escape controversy.

The effort involves tech leaders such as Alibaba, Baidu, eBay, Facebook and Instagram who have pledged to try to reduce trafficking across their platforms by 80 percent by 2020.

Carter was one of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous unit that overcame both internal challenges and enemy fire to serve in World War II.

President Trump's chief economic adviser Gary Cohn is leaving the White House. Cohn has fought against President Trump imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, a battle he appears to have lost.