The president-elect recently affirmed that he supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use. His stance means cannabis ...

Judith Jamison, dance star and former artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died Saturday. She was 81.

In the first interview about his new book The City and its Uncertain Walls, the celebrated author also talks with NPR about ...

Stefanik, who is the House Republican Conference Chair, has been a key ally of Trump's over the years and was reported to have been a contender as his running mate during the presidential election.

Homan was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from January 2017 to June 2018, where he was a key ...

Although Texas counties are not required to provide ambulance services, many are digging deep to pay for their own fleet or ...

Global climate talks started today in Baku, Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producing country that borders Russia and Iran on ...

A study of cells from 84 brains finds that Alzheimer’s has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

An NPR investigation finds thousands of veterans were pushed into high-cost mortgages by a program that was meant to help ...

A person has tested positive in British Columbia, Canadian health officials said, though the results must be sent to another ...

It marks even more turmoil in an already rocky democratic transition process for Haiti, which hasn't held democratic ...