The administration has announced a new military strategy designed to open up the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, but it's unclear if this will break Iran's grip on the key waterway.

Hebrew Union College, the oldest Jewish seminary in the U.S., was established in 1875 in Cincinnati. The college has other campuses, but its premiere institution in Cincinnati will shut down.

Three teenage siblings recently detained — and released — by ICE are the opening act for country star Kacey Musgraves in Texas.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting new initiatives to wean people off of antidepressants like Zoloft and Prozac. Psychiatrists are urging caution before changing any medication.

In the month since the Trump administration announced a major reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service, critics have called it a stealth dismantling. The plan includes moving its headquarters.

Ohio voters say they're concerned by what they see as the rising cost of living. Even with statewide races on the ballot, voters say its local issues that are motivating them to cast primary ballots.

Record low snow pack is shaping a high-risk summer for wildfires. A new program is using a unique strategy for getting rid of ...

A lawsuit in Pakistan challenges how period products are taxed. But sometimes that approach has not actually lowered prices.

The El Niño weather pattern is forecast to bring a hotter-than-typical summer. During a Heat Summit this week in Las Vegas, ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Martha Gimbel, executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, about living in a war economy.

Alabama lawmakers are scrambling to change the state's congressional maps. The governor called a special session after the Supreme Court tossed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

More than 30 sloths imported for an exhibit in Florida have died. State officials are now investigating what went wrong as a zoo tries to keep about a dozen sloths alive.