A U.S. District judge sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the ...

The lawsuit says there is no legitimate reason to send migrants to Guantánamo because the U.S. has ample detention facility.

In the nearly 250-year history of the United States, English had never been designated as the nation's official language.

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.

Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family ...

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

Dr. Francis 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 ...

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

We look at the latest demotions of senior attorneys at Trump Justice Department, which has continued to target career prosecutors.