A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western ...

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As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the law — and ...

National Weather Service offices across the country are suspending or reducing weather balloon flights due to low staffing.

There’s extensive damage in the Nevada and Moundville, MO areas after an unconfirmed tornado moved through Wednesday morning.

As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his ...

Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. She has covered politics since 2010 for publications including Politico, CNN and The Associated Press. She got ...

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Canadian actress and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney was detained by immigration authorities for 12 days after trying to apply ...

Everyone knows that Europeans tend to live longer than Americans. But a new study has a surprising twist: Even the richest Americans only live about as long as the poorest western Europeans. Embargoed ...

Actor Val Kilmer has died at 65. Kilmer played Jim Morrison, Batman, and dozens of other characters in movies that helped define the 1980s and 1990s.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Genevieve Villamora about adapting healing soup recipes from around the world with ingredients commonly available in the U.S.