A U.S. District judge sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the ...

The lawsuit says there is no legitimate reason to send migrants to Guantánamo because the U.S. has ample detention facility.

In the nearly 250-year history of the United States, English had never been designated as the nation's official language.

DOGE has a mandate from both President Trump and Elon Musk to make federal agencies more efficient and transparent. But who is making sure DOGE is efficient and transparent?

For decades, migrants have been riding north through Mexico aboard a freight train nicknamed "La Bestia." An NPR reporter hopped on board to ask some migrants why they do it.

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads.

Four years after a winter storm led to a massive power blackout in Texas, a podcast examines the role the state's natural gas system played in the disaster.

One day after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's tense meeting with President Trump, Ukrainians worry about what the Oval Office clash means for their country's future.

Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

Up to 3,000 additional troops have been ordered to the U.S.-Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the latest in ...

Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency ...