On Saturday, a federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops in ...

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.

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Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, ...

The federal government is currently shut down. NPR's network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting ...

On the seventh day of the shutdown, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find ...

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each ...

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have ...

In his second term, President Trump has increasingly sought the use of the Guard — specifically in Democratic-led cities — to ...

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a ...

Democrats and a federal union argue the Trump administration's language posted on federal agency websites and in some emails ...

Ten men escaped the Orleans Parish Justice Center through a hole in the wall behind a toilet on May 16. Most were captured ...