Under a legacy of the war on drugs, some states still ban people with drug convictions from getting government food assistance. Nebraska lawmakers tried to do away with their ban and just fell short.

A senior State Department official faced tough questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday as he defended sweeping layoffs and the dismantling of the U.S.'s lead foreign aid agency.

A day after the third anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, it will stop providing specialized counseling service for LGBTQ+ youth. Lawmakers and mental health advocates are concerned ...

An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare ...

President Trump said it was "highly unlikely" he would fire Jerome Powell, but also said he discussed the idea with Republican lawmakers who expressed support.

James Craig is accused of fatally poisoning his wife of 23 years and trying to cover his tracks by asking his cellmate to kill the lead investigator. Here's what to know as his Colorado trial starts.

Sayfollah Musallet, a U.S. citizen from Tampa, Florida, was killed while he was visiting family in the West Bank.

Nearly every county in the U.S. experiences flooding, and yet few homeowners have flood insurance policies. Mark Friedlander, spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, joins us to explain ...

Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.

After NPR reported on a Department of Homeland Security tool to check the citizenship of registered voters, three U.S.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel on Wednesday conducted airstrikes in downtown Damascus, the Syrian capital. The Israeli military ...