Ryland Barton

and says he understands some of Trump's concerns about the alliance, but he's also making the case that the U.S.

is better off as part of it.

NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.

Eligible men between the ages of 18 and 25 will automatically be registered into the U.S.

military draft pool starting in December.

That's a change from the current requirement to self-register into the Selective Service System.

The military has not held a draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War.

There are more deaths in immigration detention this fiscal year than in the last two decades.

Twenty-seven people have died in ICE custody since October, according to data reviewed by NPR.

NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.

U.S.

stocks rose today, even though oil prices did too.

This is NPR News from Washington.

The Trump administration is proposing cuts to federal funding for tribal colleges and universities for the second year in a row.

In his budget request, President Trump is seeking to eliminate funding for the Institute for American Indian Arts and reduce support for dozens of other tribal colleges and universities.

School leaders say the funding is part of the country's treaty and trust responsibilities to tribal nations.

A new analysis finds the emperor penguin species is at risk of extinction.

NPR's Nate Rott reports melting sea ice and changing food availability are causing their decline.

Scientists have found evidence that a sea creature from 300 million years ago previously thought to be the world's earliest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

A University of Reading zoology lecturer found that the fossil had too many teeth to be an octopus.