NPR spoke with two international students about their decision to continue speaking out despite the government's aggressive ...

President Trump wants to reframe how the country's stories are told. But historians are pushing back, saying the ...

The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rep. Mike Lawler, of New York State, about Republican divisions that threaten to derail the ongoing budget negotiations.

Trump's "big, beautiful bill" faces continued resistance, South Africa's president heads to the White House, DOGE tries to embed beyond the executive branch.

NPR's Michel Martin asks the heads of two women-owned businesses how they are navigating the swing in tariff levels on China.

After a three-year pause because of problems with execution drugs, Tennessee is resuming the practice saying it now has a safe way to administer a lethal injection.

There are new rules about how real estate agents are paid. That's led some homebuyers and sellers to embrace a new way to pay their realtor: with a flat fee instead of a percentage of the sales price.

There's a federal law that helps homeless students get an education. It's administered by the U.S. Education Department, and schools worry there's no plan for the program if the department closes.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio faces another grilling on Capitol Hill, a day after his testy exchanges with his former colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's takeover of the United States Institute of Peace. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with lawyer George Foote about the future of the institute.

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Pulitzer-winning authors Toluse Olorunnippa and Robert Samuels about Floyd's life, set against a backdrop of institutional racism.