The major party candidates for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat faced off in an hourlong debate Friday on MPR News with fraud, affordability and fallout from the Trump administration's policies as key ...

Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire, has influence across the economy and politics. NPR's Scott Simon talks to reporter Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker about Musk's campaign spending and more.

NPR has learned that $86 million in teen pregnancy prevention funds meant for local grantees nationwide is instead going to a single large contractor with ties to the Trump administration.

Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for ...

More than three decades after the end of apartheid, families of victims of some of the worst crimes of South Africa's past ...

High winds are fueling a fast-moving fire that has burned homes in Southern California. Flames engulfed expensive coastal ...

For the past 10 years, Catherine Ericson has spent her autumns tracking the changing leaves around Lake Placid in upstate New York, as one of the state's official leaf peepers.

Authorities say the 16-year-old suspect in a school shooting that killed three children and one teacher at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon was once a student there.

Albuquerque native Julianna Rubio Slager used her own experience with post-partum depression to offer a more compassionate ...

The Sandia Mountains have watched over the Middle Rio Grande Valley for 10 million years, serving as an ever-present sentinel ...

The federal deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was nearly $2 trillion. That's the biggest budget gap since 2021, when the country was still recovering from the pandemic.

For the first time since 2014, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has updated its guidelines for the ...