For the first time since his confirmation, Secretary of VA Doug Collins appeared before the Senate VA committee, after three months of controversial VA policy announcements.

Six months after the election, a federal judge has ordered that a contest for the North Carolina should finally be over, in a case that targeted thousands of votes on technical grounds.

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The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are ...

Oil prices have hit a multi-year low after OPEC decided to increase production, even as analysts worry that tariffs will disrupt the global economy enough to bring down demand for crude.

The most detailed plan to reshape the Army began taking shape long before Pete Hegseth's arrival as secretary of defense.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. "Weird Al" Yankovic grapples with the complicated feelings of watching his daughter grow up.

India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of ...

NPR's Life Kit team offers tips for how to read deeply in an age when we are constantly distracted.

Pope Francis worked to make the Catholic church more open to the LGBTQ community than ever. On the eve of the papal conclave, Scott Detrow speaks with the Rev. James Martin about what happens now.

A glimpse inside the shattered city of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, destroyed by the two-year conflict and now in the process of trying to recover.

Center-right politician Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor after an unprecedented two rounds of voting in the German parliament.