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The Collier County School District faces a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of three Immokalee immigrant families alleging that…

A Facebook post has warned African Americans to not participate in the census. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jeri Green, from the National Urban League, about efforts to combat disinformation.

The Gumbo Limbo is a most unusual tree because of its red, shiny, peeling bark – which earned it the favored nickname of “tourist tree”. It is also a south Florida native, although south Florida is at the northern limits of its native distribution. Most Gumbo Limbo trees (known to science as Bursera simaruba) reach little more than 35 feet in height, but some are known to reach as much as 80 feet. This tree is found where hurricanes are found – and it has adapted well to survive hurricane winds. It develops a solid supportive root system, has somewhat open, spreading, very flexible limbs, and quickly regrows leaves after they have been ripped off by storms. A great diversity of wildlife feeds on Gumbo Limbo fruit throughout its range in Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the northern coast of Central America.

With help from a dedicated cadre of volunteers, paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles continue to excavate the remains of saber tooth cats, dire wolves and other creatures from the Ice Age that ruled the region more than 40,000 years ago.

Amy Walter and Susan Page join John Yang to discuss the week’s news,

Judy Woodruff talks to Susan Page of USA Today and Margaret Talev of Bloomberg News

Amy Walter, Susan Page, and Andra Gillespie join Judy Woodruff and Hari Sreenivasan.

Olivia Roth takes a circuitous route home to Cleveland for every school holiday. She'd never seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles, so she watched it and discussed it with NPR's Scott Simon.

New data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Homeless Education finds that the number of homeless students in Florida schools has…