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Up to 3,000 additional troops have been ordered to the U.S.-Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the latest in ...

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads.

Four years after a winter storm led to a massive power blackout in Texas, a podcast examines the role the state's natural gas system played in the disaster.

Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency ...

Immigration authorities are making more arrests than they did under President Biden. But the Department of Homeland ...

An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power. Law clerks and other ...

Trump will give his first speech to Congress next Tuesday since his reelection. It has characteristics of what Americans call ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough ...

Leaders from across Europe came quickly to the defense of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after his televised clash ...

Eileen and James Kramer were fired from their jobs at Lake Clark National Park in Alaska, even though they both recently ...

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones ...