With the number of people being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement escalating at a rapid rate since January, ...

For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security.

In an unprecedented move, India held the water treaty in abeyance after blaming Pakistan for a deadly attack in April.

A swath of federal agencies — from the Department of the Interior to the U.S. Air Force and Department of Energy — have ...

Over the holiday weekend, New Mexico’s neighboring state endured a catastrophic flood that claimed the lives of more than 100 ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

A new working paper from economists Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova categorizes tribal gaming as a kind of ...

The search for missing people in central Texas continues. Volunteers from the United Cajun Navy have traveled from the state of Louisiana to help.

A Russian official named Roman Starovoit acted as the Kremlin's Transportation Minister was reported dead hours after Putin fired him. Officials say he died by suicide.

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the coast of Southern California. Some sea lions are now being released back into ...

Level up your knowledge of mosquito bite prevention with our quiz. It's full of surprising, science-backed tactics that may save you from getting eaten alive this summer.

NPR's Michel Martin asks U.S. Coast Guard Air Operations Officer Nathan Shakespeare about his work coordinating rescues in the Texas flood zone from a base in Corpus Christi.