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State officials announced on Saturday that they will bring back sweeping new restrictions as cases of the coronavirus continue to climb and...

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks to Guardian Health editor Sarah Boseley about the U.K.'s vaccine rollout.

Workers were inside the shuttered mine to dismantle equipment when dangerous levels of carbon monoxide began to seep into the air. (Image cr...

The history of presidential pardons is often surprising, and revealing.(Image credit: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Scott Simon speaks with longtime U.S. Naval Academy cobbler Ronald Smith, who has retired after a 53-year career.

It is still not clear if Republicans and Democrats can reach an agreement on a new economic stimulus deal before the end of the year.

France's interior minister thought his security-minded nation would support a bill to restrict filming of police but citizens across the pol...

Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis instructed the Department of Homeland Security to begin accepting new applications for the Deferred Action f...

Congress hit pause on federal student loan payments in the CARES Act. The latest extension of this relief will last until after President-el...

The bill is "nothing more than legislative harassment," ACLU of Ohio lobbyist Gary Daniels said in his testimony against the bill.

Public health workers across the country are quitting and the exodus is particularly pronounced in rural Kansas where public opposition to m...

The drilling is scheduled to start this month in waters off the Bahamas, just 150 miles from the Florida coast. It's raising alarms among en...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., about a proposed bipartisan coronavirus relief bill.

Job growth in the U.S. slowed down sharply in November. The weaker-than-expected job gains could give fresh urgency to congressional negotia...

In the pandemic-centered debate over school reopenings, teachers unions have been standing up with strike threats, legal actions and protest...

With the help of Ric Erwin of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas, Santa Claus joins NPR to talk about measures he is planning to tak...

Despite anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies, Donald Trump appears to have gotten more, not less support from American Muslims.

One of the key foreign policy areas facing President-elect Joe Biden is Iran. He wants to reach out to Iran after taking office, but recent...

Relations between Australia and its biggest trading partner, China, are quickly deteriorating as it pushes back against Beijing's increasing...

State leaders implemented sweeping measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Here's how changes in case numbers are affecting their re...

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for a 9th straight day. They accuse the government of using the coronavirus crisis to pus...

The Black teenager was killed Nov. 23 by a white middle-aged man who confronted him for playing loud music. Ellison's death is causing soul...

The Black teenager was killed Nov. 23 by a white middle-aged man who confronted him for playing loud music. Ellison's death is causing soul...

Mass vaccinations will start less than a week after the U.K. approved the new drug. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford says it could start...

Luckily, the man in the cockpit of the single-engine plane Wednesday night happened to be an experienced aerobatic pilot, whose maneuvers im...