With a government shutdown looming, Democrats are pushing to extend key tax credits that keep ACA premiums low. Without them, millions face rate hikes or risk losing their coverage.

Michael Bitzer is a political scientist at Catawba College. He says the gaps show that the country has deep divisions that ...

A ground tour of Sampson County, which has more hogs than any county in the US, and what that means for neighbors.

In parts of Western Pennsylvania, steel plants are big employers – and big polluters. This summer, the Trump administration paused regulations that would have forced steel mills to curb air pollution.

For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark ...

The proposal was added to Iryna's Law during debate late Monday evening. It added a partisan element to a bill that had ...

Jurors convicted Routh on five charges, including last year's attempted assassination of Trump as he golfed at his South ...

On the U.N. General Assembly's opening day, President Trump declared Ukraine "can win back all territory lost to Russia," marking a sharp reversal from earlier statements he's made about the war.

The Salt Fat Acid Heat cookbook author once worried that recipes were too constraining. But she now sees them as a tool for ...

NPR speaks with Anwar Gargash, diplomatic advisor to the president of the United Arab Emirates, about the country's role in the conflicts in the Middle East and Sudan.

In a special election, voters in southern Arizona have chosen to send Democrat Adelita Grijalva to Congress, narrowing the GOP's slim majority in the House.

In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as ...