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The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to former top FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann about the FBI raid of former Congressman Eric Swalwell's home.

Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, and a majority sees Iran as either only a minor threat or no threat at all, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.

The settlement between states and Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, means there will be new safeguards for young people on those platforms. What do psychologists think of the changes?

A drug bust involving an alleged cocaine ring at Penn State has drawn attention to drug use on college campuses, but research shows the big risk to students is alcohol.

Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.

More parents are getting exemptions for their kids so they don't have to get vaccinated for kindergarten, and fewer kids are getting their shots. That's according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This comes as the Trump administration is trying to reduce the number of vaccinations children get, and childhood diseases like measles are resurging.

"Carpetbagger" describes people who move somewhere to run for office. In Southwest Florida, six former congressional hopefuls from other states are taking their shot in this conservative stronghold.

This summer, fallen trees are blocking hundreds of miles of wilderness trails, following unusual weather events. Some forests will allow chainsaws as a controversial exception to a ban on motors.

Maine's lobster fishing industry is closely integrated with processors across the border in Canada. People who depend on it are feeling whiplash from on-again, off-again tariff threats.