"It’s hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point."

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

As the U.S. pulls out of providing billions of dollars of aid for programs globally, NPR's reporters find out what that looks like on the ground - and how China is moving in to take America's place.Fo...

County medical examiners announced the ruling on Wednesday. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating.

The Republican megabill enacted in July will require most states to pay a share of SNAP food benefit costs — for many states, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars a year — for the first...

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

The Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would ban members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from trading and owning individual stocks during their tenure in office, is supported b…

Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, the company dismantled a probe and suspended the investigators. Binance denied that the inquiry ended or that staff were fired for the concerns.

"They just left him."

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, Thursday, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch t...