The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, an. They may have originated from a comet that broke up ...

Essayist Phil Klay says Trump tried to use the military to push his partisan agenda before, and may further erode norms around the military as he looks for those willing to "go with his whims." ...

Judith Jamison, dance star and former artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died Saturday. She was 81.

In the first interview about his new book The City and its Uncertain Walls, the celebrated author also talks with NPR about ...

Homan was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from January 2017 to June 2018, where he was a key architect of the Trump administration's controversial family separation policy.

The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions ...

Stefanik, who is the House Republican Conference Chair, has been a key ally of Trump’s over the years and was reported to have been a contender as his running mate during the presidential election.

These races will determine who controls the House. Plus, an NPR investigation found thousands of veterans were pushed into ...

NPR's Leila Fadel asks former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker about President-elect Donald Trump's campaign boasts that he can end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

The list includes the first woman to serve as chief of staff. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author and reporter Annie Karnie about how President-elect Donald Trump may engage women for prominent roles.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

Global climate talks started today in Baku, Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producing country that borders Russia and Iran on ...