President Trump is hosting 5 African leaders in Washington this week — a selective summit that's raising eyebrows over who ...

The most recent Texas Legislature handed Elon Musk or his companies' representatives and lobbyists some big political wins, including 10 new laws that could benefit his growing business footprint.

Sixty-eight hate crimes were reported to the Idaho State Police in 2024. That’s a 21% increase from the previous year. The ...

Republicans made concessions for Alaska to get Sen. Lisa Murkowski to cast the deciding vote approving the GOP's sweeping tax and spending bill. Do her constituents think she got a good deal?

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer and critic Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection out titled No Sense in Wishing.

In the aftermath of the deadly floods, Texas lawmakers are reassessing a bill they killed weeks ago to beef up emergency alert systems and vowing to have more in place by the next camping season.

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The recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran has raised questions about who — or what — could replace Iran's 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei when he dies.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.

Filmmaker Celine Song isn't religious, but that doesn't stop her from seeing certain dead insects as signs in her life and ...

The diocese is the first in the national to issue a special dispensation because of fears over immigration detentions.

Immigrant rights organizations sued the state arguing that its new law conflicts with federal immigration law, and under ...