Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he will chair the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the defense budget in 2025, after ...

A string of deaths in Laos tied to tainted alcohol has raised alarm around the world and renewed concerns about methanol in ...

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brooke Rollins, head of the America First Policy Institute, to oversee the Department ...

A major storm dropped more snow and record rain in California, while on the opposite side of the country blizzard or winter ...

The cases appeared in California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York between July 31 and Oct. 24, the CDC said. Nine out of ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and the head of NATO, Mark Rutte, met on Friday in Palm Beach for talks on global security, ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.

We look at the case against multi-millionaire Gautam Adani who along with several other executives, faces allegations that he attempted to bribe Indian officials to secure solar power contracts.

Comcast plans to shed its cable TV channels, including MSNBC. What are the fortunes these days of the liberal news channel?

President-elect Trump plans to nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. He's been on of Trump's biggest cheerleaders in the financial world.

The seven states that share the Colorado River have a 2026 deadline for a new sharing agreement. The Biden administration this week encouraged them to hurry, in an apparent attempt to limit the ...

Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai took the stand this week. He faces charges in connection with the 2019 anti-government protests in the region. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with his son, Sebastien Lai.