Iran's supreme leader rebuffed President Trump's hopes to start talks over Iran's nuclear program.

NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.

World waits for Moscow response to ceasefire offer the U.S. brokered with Ukraine, EPA announces dozens of regulations it plans to target, Iran rebuffs Trump hopes on starting nuclear talks.

Are we more prepared to detect the start of a possible pandemic than we were in 2020? Some things have gotten better, and some worse.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with the co-authors of "You Must Take Part in Revolution," a new dystopian graphic novel set in the year 2035 with the U.S. and China at war.

At the Labor Department, there's a draft proposal to nearly dismantle an office that investigates discrimination by federal contractors. Some fear that women and people of color will lose protections.

How might layoffs at the Department of Education affect its core functions? NPR speaks with education scholar Beth Akers, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

NPR's Michel Martin talks about the consequences of deep cuts to foreign aid programs with three aid workers in Africa, where about a quarter of USAID funds were allocated.

The National Institutes of Health is terminating dozens of studies examining why people are hesitant about vaccines and how ...

The National Institutes of Health is terminating dozens of studies examining why people are hesitant about vaccines and how ...

Many people say their seasonal allergies are hitting earlier and harder. We talk with a professor who studied how climate change has affected plant biology for over 30 years.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...