The recently signed mutual defense treaty could be used to justify thewidening of the war in Ukraine, as the U.S. says North ...

Steve Inskeep speaks with Senator Chris Murphy about how the democratic party rebuilds after its election loss.

Police officers backed Trump's reelection, but police reform advocates wonder what that will mean for police accountability ...

President elect Trump and a Republican-led Senate will have the power to reshape the federal judiciary for decades to come.

President Biden is having his final meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday. Biden is in South America attending the last big global summits of his presidency.

Israel has recently attacked locations far from the fighting, killing in total almost 200 displaced Lebanese people. NPR went to the site of one of those attacks.

The future of DACA is grim. President-elect Donald Trump has continuously pledged to end the program and with a trifecta, the likelihood of the program ending is very high.

Conan O'Brien, the comedian, writer, and former late-night host has been chosen to emcee the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony. He has many shoes to fill when he takes the stage in March.

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields.

Going into election day, pollsters predicted a possible record-setting gender gap. That didn't quite happen, but polls showed young men swung hard toward Trump, boosted by new voters and Latino men.

NPR's Juana Summer's speaks with Julie Rovner of KFF Health News about what it means to run the Department of Health and Human Services and what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., could bring to the job.

An analysis of brains at various stages of Alzheimer's found that neurons called inhibitory neurons are the first to be affected by the disease.