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

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.

A Missouri resident detained by immigration authorities was deported this year to the Netherlands, a country he has not lived in since he was 5 years old. Now he's learning a new language and trying ...

Drought conditions in Florida are so bad that some lakes are drying up and alligators are running out of room.

Two musicals are tied with 12 nominations each: a special-effects-crammed The Lost Boys, and the candy-colored satire ...

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife. This year's theme is "one million more" — reflecting a shortage of midwives based ...

After Canada changed a law opening up citizenship opportunities, thousands of Americans are trying to become citizens of their northern neighbor. It's partly for political and personal reasons.

The U.S.-Israeli ceasefire with Iran somehow remains intact, despite tensions rising as both the U.S. and Iran vie for ...

Families in Norfolk, Va., await the return of roughly 15,000 sailors and Marines as the USS Ford continues a deployment that ...

An analysis by NPR suggests that frames from an iconic music video were used to generate content for a tweet by the FBI ...

The impact of Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities can still be felt, even three months after it ended. For immigrants, ...

Award winners include authors Daniel Kraus, Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li, opinion writer M. Gessen and staffers and contributors ...