GOP lawmakers in swing districts insist they will not vote for any proposal that strips benefits, placing them at odds with ...

The Trump administration slashed funding for the national service agency and fired most of its staff. 32,000 people, mostly ...

A federal court says Alabama can't use a congressional map it found unconstitutional. The ruling comes in a voting rights ...

Casey Means, President Trump's new pick for U.S. surgeon general faces questions about her medical qualifications. And ...

President Trump signed an executive order telling white Afrikaans South Africans they could apply for refugee status in the U ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian friar ever to be selected to lead the Catholic Church. The Villanova graduate was ...

Janinna Sesa worked alongside Pope Leo XIV in Chiclayo, Peru from 2015 until 2023. She spoke with NPR about his leadership in times of crisis.

President Trump said he is appointing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to be acting U.S. attorney in Washington DC. This is after the president pulled his controversial first pick for the job, Ed Martin.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched back in 1972, known as Kosmos 482, is expected to fall back to Earth. The Soviet Union tried to send the lander to Venus, but it never made it.

An Alabama U.S. House seat APR spotlighted in a eight-month investigation apparently got support from a three-judge federal ...

What actually counts as a Chinese product these days? NPR's Planet Money explains the counterintuitive rules behind what counts as a "country of origin" or "Made in China." ...