Up to 3,000 additional troops have been ordered to the U.S.-Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the latest in ...

Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency ...

Immigration authorities are making more arrests than they did under President Biden. But the Department of Homeland ...

Leaders from across Europe came quickly to the defense of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after his televised clash ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough ...

There's a long history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.

It's well known that President Trump is a devotee of professional wrestling. Pundits often describe his moves in the White House in wrestling terms: smackdowns, cage fights and so on. We ask how the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to comedian Andy Huggins about aging, his long career in stand-up comedy and his first full-length special, which he taped at age 73.

Cuts at NOAA mean fewer hurricane-hunter aircrafts will be gathering real time data on developing storms and that the team developing computer models for forecasts will be "gutted," insiders say.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, about how some government statistics get the economy wrong.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michele Steele of ESPN about basketball legend Diana Taurasi's retirement, drama in the NBA, and a political statement by Canada's men's national soccer team coach.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Gene Hackman, who played everymen, cops and villains over his long movie career. The 95 year old ...