"Smartphones make our alone time feel more crowded than it used to be," says journalist Derek Thompson. His article in The ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Col. Bree Fram, an openly transgender member of the U.S. Space Force, about President Trump's orders to remove transgender service members from the military.

As the state department freeze passport applications with the X gender markers, what are the implications for both current and future passport holders?

The Department of Government Efficiency, a post-election promise brought to life by President Trump via executive order, ...

Every other year, the Nation's Report Card shows how students across the U.S. are doing in subjects like math and reading. The 2024 results are cause for hope, and concern.

Senators grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines, abortion and Medicaid in his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the White House rescinded a memo that ordered a government spending freeze. But the White House says its effort to align government programs with Trump's priorities remains.

Through an email blast, federal workers were given the opportunity to resign from their jobs before Feb. 6 and retain full ...

The filmmakers of this emotionally powerful documentary followed Delwin Fiddler Jr. as he returned home to South Dakota after years in Philadelphia — then kept revisiting him for more than a decade.

A new casino could be built less than 20 miles west of Washington D.C. More than 100 former spies and intelligence officers ...

The HHS Secretary nominee has said he'd like to end subsidies for junk food and sugary drinks via federal programs such as SNAP, which, at $100 billion a year, is the U.S.'s top anti-hunger program.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author Joseph Finder about his new thriller novel The Oligarch's Daughter, a tale of a man on the run from an elusive and mysterious adversary.