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.

(AP) Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family ...

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

The former governor, who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations, launched his mayoral bid in a video posted on X.

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

Immigration authorities are making more arrests than they did under President Biden. But the Department of Homeland ...