The decision reverses course on the use of consent decrees to ensure accountability of law enforcement agencies. It comes ...

A Georgia woman declared brain dead is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. It raises complicated legal ...

Agents have typically taken a commission on the sale of a home that totals 5% to 6% of the price. But new rules have created ...

President Trump wants to reframe how the country's stories are told. But historians are pushing back, saying the ...

Many of the CDC's newsletters have stopped being distributed, workers at the CDC say. Health alerts about disease outbreaks, ...

The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rep. Mike Lawler, of New York State, about Republican divisions that threaten to derail the ongoing budget negotiations.

The massive tax and immigration bill at the heart of President Trump's second term plans faces continued resistance from both moderates and hardliners.

NPR's Michel Martin asks the heads of two women-owned businesses how they are navigating the swing in tariff levels on China.

There's a federal law that helps homeless students get an education. It's administered by the U.S. Education Department, and schools worry there's no plan for the program if the department closes.

There are new rules about how real estate agents are paid. That's led some homebuyers and sellers to embrace a new way to pay their realtor: with a flat fee instead of a percentage of the sales price.

Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The ...