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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog to break down the arguments in Tuesday's hearing on transgender students participating in public school sports.

The Federal Reserve will meet later this month to make a decision on interest rates. But the latest inflation report is likely to make the central bank cautious about additional rate cuts.

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, speaks with NPR's A Martinez about the latest inflation numbers and President Trump's attack on Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

On this day in 1856, Joseph R. Williams became the first president of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan. In 1913, Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion, was arrested in Battle Creek for violating the Mann Act and was posthumously pardoned in 2018.

Michigan's 15 public universities say they have an annual $45 billion impact, which justifies more state investment.

The case of $645 million in state spending unilaterally canceled by a Republican-led state House committee is scheduled for its first court hearing.

President Donald Trump says his tariffs are the reason the country's trade deficit has decreased and claims he's revived Detroit's auto industry — though companies have had mixed success recently.

House Republicans are seeking testimony as part of their investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons say they've already provided in writing what little they know.

Leaders from Denmark and Greenland will meet with top U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday to try to find a way out of a crisis caused by President Trump repeated demands to annex Greenland.