Residents and environmental advocates confront a decades-in-the-making binational pollution crisis that continues to plague ...

Texas Republicans want to redraw the state's congressional districts to gain an advantage in next year's election. U.S. Rep.

It was 35 years ago this month that the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Across the U.S., it's being ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

The earth doesn't rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...

New books published this week include a nostalgic graphic history of video games, a queer, complicated and hopeful novel set ...

A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, ...

ICE agents are testing legal boundaries and tearing communities apart to try and arrest 3,000 people every day. What does the ...

NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to ...

A coalition of elected officials and community groups is urging the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to spend hundreds of millions in recently freed up sales tax revenue on homelessness programs ...

President Trump is facing questions about the death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, he deflected by pivoting to long-held accusations about his Democratic opponents.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to use military bases in New Jersey and Indiana to detain immigrants amid its broader crackdown.