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Changes to hiring and retention practices grew the department by 19,000 people in four years. But former officials warn that's still not enough for Trump's ambitious policy goals.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker regarding the public hearings of the Illinois Accountability Commission investigating federal immigration enforcement in Chicago.

Poet Tess Taylor reviews Jynne Dilling Martin's poetry collection, We Mammals in Hospitable Times, that drew much of its inspiration from her time in Antarctica.

Scientists analyzed the tummy of a 5,300-year-old ice mummy and found bacteria that many modern humans still carry.

Homes and apartments were damaged or destroyed by a flood in Juneau, Alaska, caused by the melting Mendenhall glacier. Climate change is making these kinds of floods a growing issue around the world.

Weeks before the 2020 census rolls out to the rest of the U.S., the head count has already wrapped up in Toksook Bay, a fishing village in southwest Alaska that's home to the Nunakauyarmiut Tribe.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sheriff Garry McFadden of Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, who says federal officials alerted him that Border Patrol agents are heading to Charlotte.

Some immigrants in Minneapolis have said they're scared to go out because of ICE agents across the city. When one 12-year-old needed to run an errand, it triggered a network of underground volunteers.

A strange comet-like object discovered over five years ago was the first known visitor from another solar system. Its movement was so odd that scientists struggled to explain it, until now.

A partial government shutdown is now underway. How long it will last depends on congressional agreement over a DHS funding deal that proposes new guardrails on immigration enforcement.