Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport ...

Bill that affects Spokane's garbage-burning plant stalls in Olympia. The Washington legislature has decided not to act on a bill that would exempt Spokane’s Waste-to-Energy plan ...

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.

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 ...