SCOTUS to rule on birthright citizenship. And, U.S. murder rate nears new low
The Supreme Court is expected to make a long-awaited ruling on birthright citizenship today, on the high court's last day of its term. And, the U.S. m...
Federal money for workforce training begins, but few programs qualify
July 1 marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars to go toward short-term workforce training programs. So far just 11 states ...
Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes
146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas on June 24. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes st...
Inside the coordinated strategy to radically reshape U.S. immigration
As the Supreme Court today weighs the Trump administration's effort to revoke birthright citizenship, NPR looks at what else the White House has done ...
A few years ago, experts worried about a "new normal" of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with breaking its all-time low...
America's first Black legislators and the work to revive their legacies
Alfred Richardson and Madison Davis were the first Black legislators in Athens, Ga., elected in 1868. The backlash against them still reverberates tod...
Explosion in Monaco injuries 3, including Ukrainian tycoon
A blast from an explosive device has seriously injured three people at a residential building in Monaco, and the attacker fled to France, local author...
Michigan governor threatens to pull troops from D.C. if used for Trump task force
Michigan Gov. Whitmer is one of four Democrats who sent their states' National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. ahead of America 250 celebrations in r...
Wheelchair users say private equity is making repairs harder
People who rely on wheelchairs say that industry consolidation driven by private equity means long delays in getting them fixed, which isolates them f...
The Temporary Protected Status program may effectively be over. Here's what we know.
A Supreme Court ruling gives the Trump administration space to strip this status from hundreds of thousands of more people from the few remaining coun...
Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to much of federal government's regulatory structure
The Supreme Court struck down most of the limits that Congress and the courts had previously established to protect the independence of regulatory age...
Venezuela's deadly quakes put its U.S.-backed government to the test
Venezuela's La Guaira state bore the brunt of the earthquake damage, bringing memories of a 1999 disaster that became President Hugo Chávez's first ma...
Senate Ethics Committee dismisses complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego
The committee had been alerted by a fellow member of Congress of allegations of campaign finance violations and potential sexual misconduct, but said ...
They were world-class tennis rivals. Now friends, they've teamed up against cancer
They were the women's tennis champions of their generation. Now, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova open up about friendship, cancer and retirement i...
Writing for the 6-3 majority, Justice Elena Kagan said that the technique, known as geofencing, violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against un...
Supreme Court cements Trump's power over agencies long considered independent
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies m...
The Supreme Court upholds grace periods for mail-in ballots, siding against the GOP
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but re...
Pakistani airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Afghanistan and wound 160, officials say
Pakistan says it targeted militant hideouts along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in response to militant attacks across Pakistan. Afghanistan condemn...
U.S. and Iran exchange fire despite ceasefire. And, Trump nominates a new head of ICE
The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes over the weekend, putting their latest ceasefire in jeopardy. And, Trump has nominated a former Oklahoma state tro...
Trump says U.S. and Iran to meet in Qatar after weekend attacks
President Trump said talks with Iran would resume Tuesday in Qatar, despite the two sides trading attacks in the Gulf over the weekend. Iran did not c...
U.S.-Iran peace talks in question after weekend attacks in the Gulf
Iran and the U.S. traded attacks over the weekend, throwing into question technical talks that were set to take place this week to advance the interim...
Former Iran nuclear deal negotiator on what U.S.-Iran 'new normal' looks like
NPR's Leila Fadel asks former national security adviser and 2015 Iran deal negotiator Jake Sullivan about ceasefire talks amid new strikes by the U.S....
3 World Cup rivals find 'Common Ground' in a cross-border beer
A trio of craft breweries from the global soccer event's three host nations are using the tournament to brew something increasingly rare: cross-border...
Could neo-Nazi youth, or 'active clubs,' have played a role in Belfast riots?
In the wake of racist, mob violence in Northern Ireland this month, there has been a fresh round of attention on so-called "active clubs," the global ...
