NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

A measles outbreak in Bangladesh is suspected to have killed more than 500 and sickened up to 60,000. Bangladesh was getting measles under control until a new government upended vaccination efforts.

A U.S. Senate race in Texas is now set with the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton winning the GOP nomination in a primary runoff Tuesday. He'll face Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.

Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal ...

The Trump administration has proposed creating a new government-wide nondisclosure agreement for new and existing federal ...

Ben Rhodes was a speechwriter and security adviser for President Obama. His book, All We Say, is a collection of 15 speeches — from Ben Franklin to Trump — about what it means to be American.

The Texas primary runoffs have now concluded and major November election matchups are set. And Trump's Justice Department has ...

ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country ...

The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

Joe Biden sued the Justice Department to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of the former president's interview with a ghostwriter that were obtained by the special counsel.

President Trump will meet with his Cabinet on Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran.