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The Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action. The ruling on Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is expected today. The contract between actors and studios expires tonight.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about why so many domestic flights have been canceled in recent days, and the Biden administration's efforts to fix air travel.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to sociology professor Crystal Fleming of Stony Brook University about the protests in France following the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.

Spending on travel and entertainment is up, even as Americans contend with stubborn inflation. One reason the economy is doing so well is that people keep spending money.

Millions of federal borrowers will not see their debts decreased or erased. Roughly 1 in 8 Americans will have to restart loan payments as soon as September.

The Supreme Court strikes down college affirmative action programs, and will rule on challenges to the student debt forgiveness plan. The contract between actors and studios expires at midnight.

Twenty-five years of experimentation under race-neutral admissions policies — and a half-billion dollars later — the University of California system says they still can't meet their diversity goals.

AAA is forecasting record-high travel this weekend, when more than 50 million Americans are expected to get out of town. That could mean clogged roads and snarls at airports.

After Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS, he and his wife Sandra Abrevaya threw themselves into advocating for patients. Everyone up to President Biden took notice.

NPR speaks to the family of a Syrian refugee who died along with possibly hundreds of other people in a shipwreck off the Greek coast in June.