NPR speaks with Amber Harding, executive director of The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, about the Trump administration's efforts to crackdown on homelessness in the nation's capital.

Wildfires throughout the Mountain West have caused significant air quality problems this summer, even for communities miles ...

European leaders held a high-stakes meeting Wednesday with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO's chief ahead of Friday's U.S.-Russia summit.

The Stoner Mesa Fire in Montezuma and Dolores counties grows to 7,123 acres with 0% containment as crews battle wind-driven flames and protect structures.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

Inflation remained elevated last month as President Trump's tariffs continued to make their way into the prices that ...

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Peter Harrell of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the Trump administration's deal to allow AI chip sales to China in exchange for revenue.

After the U.S. early famine warning systems went dark earlier in 2025, the lights are back on. But questions remain about whether it will be as effective as before and whether it will be politicized.

Presidents Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska to talk about a costly Russian war involving Crimea, bringing up parallels of the circumstances that led Russia to sell Alaska to the U.S. in the 1800s.