Fifty-seven percent of the city’s residents support a stormwater fee to maintain the city’s drainage system, according to a ...

Would-be refugees with pending asylum cases are unsure whether the Trump administration's revocation of temporary protected status applies to them.

A toddler wandered away from home in Arizona and many feared the worst after seeing mountain lions during their search. A ranch dog found him and guided him to safety.

A big focus of the Trump administration is to shore up U.S. dominance in cutting edge technology like semiconductor chips and AI. But it's slashing employees at the agency that works on these issues.

The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to make it easier to fire some federal workers, as part of its push ...

Each year the State Department releases its Country Reports on Human Rights. NPR has obtained internal State department documents that show major changes coming this year ...

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not local cows or ...

More security measures will be in place along the lakefront in New Orleans as families celebrate Easter on Sunday, authorities said.

In one of the worlds largest refugee camps, thousands of predominantly Somali refugees hoping to travel to the U.S. are waiting anxiously to see if the program will be resumed later in April.

Recent reports and surveys are showing that for a growing number of women who are not married prefer to stay single over getting married.

When Freddie Gray died in Baltimore police custody, many promises were made to his community, Sandtown. In the ten years since then, some have been kept, and some haven't.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with University of Virginia law professor Amanda Frost about the latest escalation in the conflict between the Trump administration and the courts.