New York federal prosecutors allege Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores conspired to commit torture of American citizens

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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A quick three-minute rant about the role of the press and a cognitively declining president.

Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and narrowing Senate confirmation votes make the case for reform.

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.

Ads promoting the president have cost more than $12m so far and Trump’s Super Pac has refused to reimburse taxpayers

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

Airline executives said safety standards remained high after a flydubai co-pilot attacked the captain with an axe last week in an ​alleged attempt to crash the plane, but acknowledged it was hard to ‌guard against a rogue pilot.

Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiancée and ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle pleaded with a wealthy Trump supporter to pay off her six-figure credit card debt.Guilfoyle pressed Kentucky donor Eric Deters to send $100,000 to her American Express account in July 2025, days before her Senate confirmation ...

Delta is a holdout as US airlines race to deploy Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi.

Increasingly, states from Alaska to Kansas that were long seen as GOP bastions are looking more vulnerable.

The US transportation department said late on Wednesday it approved a five-year exemption ​for Aurora and other self-driving trucking companies from rules that ‌require drivers to place warning devices around a stopped truck.