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As the 50th anniversary of the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education approaches, NPR presents a series of reports examining the monumental ruling and its legacy.

Officials say they're weeks away from a full understanding of how rioters may have planned to storm the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of people have been arrested, but the security threat may be far from over.

The NFL playoffs are underway, and there have been some unexpected moves: The league added two extra teams for the postseason, and the Cleveland Browns managed to pull out a win.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Olympic runner and filmmaker Alexi Pappas about her new memoir. In Bravey, Pappas shares what she has learned about confidence, self-reliance and mental health.

France has been slowed in its vaccine rollout by the large number of people who say they are opposed to vaccinations. But the rapid spread of COVID-19 appears to be changing some skeptics' minds.

A calico cat named Patches, who was presumed killed in a 2018 mudslide in Santa Barbara County, Calif., has turned up nearly three years later. The garage where Patches slept was destroyed.

Twitter on Wednesday put President Trump on notice: If he does not stop breaking the platform's rules, he will be permanently banned.

Two new films center on the lingering effects of trauma and tragedy. Carey Mulligan is woman bent on revenge in Promising Young Woman; Vanessa Kirby is a mother whose baby dies in Pieces of a Woman.

Antibody-based drugs that bind to the coronavirus to prevent it from invading cells can help patients with mild to moderate COVID-19. But the medicines can be tough to find in time.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with biologists Pardis Sabeti and Sharon Peacock about how genomic sequencing was used in the U.K. to trace a new coronavirus variant and what the U.S. can learn from it.