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The Chagos Islands are home to Diego Garcia, one of world's most secretive places and home to an important U.S. military base.(Image credit:...

The Trump administration continues to push spending cuts on the nation's social safety net, including unprecedented ones to the Supplemental...

A proposed a proposed Muslim development of a North Texas mosque has seen a lot of controversy from almost every single high-profile Republi...

International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could...

By some estimates, some 90% of murders in Mexico go unpunished. But when a woman in Mexico kills an abusive partner, many of them do end up...

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer ris...

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. were killed in a shooting after attending an event a Jewish museum. A suspect s...

Questions remain over this week's school shooting that killed two students and two teachers, as the father of the 14-year-old shooter is cha...

For community groups to allege violations of environmental rules, a state law says groups have to use federally-approved testing equipment,...

Recent critiques of judges from the Trump administration have prompted fears the Marshals could be caught in the middle of a power struggle...

Irsay started with the Colts as a teenage ball boy and took ownership after his father's death in 1997. The team won a Super Bowl and two AF...

The federal judge also told the administration to reinstate department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced...

The husband is from India. The wife is from Pakistan. Their son is Indian and daughters are Pakistani. India blames Pakistan for an April mi...

The court was deadlocked 4-4, which meant a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional separation of ch...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa keeps his cool after a carefully choreographed Oval Office ambush by Trump.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Ron Halber, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, about a deadly shooting that k...

Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead last night outside of a Jewish museum. And, House Republicans pass...

A federal program provides extra help to make sure students experiencing homelessness get an education. Amid massive cuts to the federal gov...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication syste...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with South African journalist Redi Thlabi about President Trump's claim that white South Africans are disproportio...

The DOJ will call off its investigation into the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments over widespread misconduct, almost five years...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military will take full control of the Gaza territory. The announcement came as a...

The beloved Muppet, created in 1955, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Maryland, the alma mater of his creator Jim...

On today's episode, we travel from the battlefields of the U.S. Civil War, through the rubble of two world wars, to the hallways of the Hagu...

Lawyers for survivors said they won't support the agreement, which they say was negotiated behind closed doors.(Image credit: Gerald Herbert...