In a note to newsroom staff, NPR Politics and Policy Desk Chief Editor, Dana Farrington, and White House Senior Editor, Rebekah Metzler, announced that Emily Feng is joining the Politics and Policy ...

A Syrian court has sentenced deposed President Bashar al-Assad and his brother to death in absentia. The Damascus court said it found Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad guilty of ordering killings, ...

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

Today marks one year since the National Guard was deployed to the nation's capital. Here's what has happened since. And, a ...

We asked people to share the story of how they became a Deadhead and received hundreds of responses. Their stories are tender ...

Search teams and civilians picked through the remains of destroyed buildings in the country's third-largest city, Cali, ...

In this episode from our friends at Sidedoor, a podcast from the Smithsonian: Clifton Chenier grew up in rural Louisiana ...

Destin Daniel Cretton grew up in Maui, and says movies expanded his perspective: "I have always found movies to be a way of peering into other lives that I would never otherwise experience," he ...

Country music is full of self-styled renegades, outlaws and cowboys — hypermasculine characters who are rough around the edges. Men like that populate Andrew Sa's debut album, American Rough. But ...

The extreme heat across the U.S. this summer has broken records, according to a new report from federal forecasters. Temperatures were hotter than average across almost the entire lower 48 states in ...

In California, tech billionaires are ramping up spending to defeat a wealth tax in the state. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent more than $100 million to blanket the state in ads and commercials ...

A new report contradicts public statements from the White House, suggesting an Iranian assassination threat against President Trump forced him to leave Air Force One and change to a military aircraft ...