A slate of projects aimed at preserving the future of California's iconic Joshua tree in has been scrapped after the Trump administration blocked more than $25 million in funding for national parks this year.

Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race

Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.

A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort.

Experts say that the drop is a cause for worry, and that it’s unlikely that the need for food assistance has dropped.

An acoustic expert has released an immersive “sound map” of the famous trail featuring sound recordings he took along his thru-hike.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

Local and state officials are advising voters to return their ballots to official drop boxes instead of relying on the Postal Service.

Indigenous leaders say the US government’s decision to close the sites was made without tribal consultation.

Gloria Steinem, the journalist, organizer and co-founder of <em>Ms.</em> whose name became inseparable from the modern movement for women’s equality, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, at her home in New York C...

Matilda Joslyn Gage, a suffragist erased from history, challenged patriarchal power—and her feminist ideas remain strikingly relevant today.

A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.

The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.

The Trump administration is pulling funding from NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed report about the state of the region, which is warming more quickly than anywhere else on Earth.

A verified, regularly updated record of federal datasets, data elements, and tools terminated or removed since January 2025.

A new American Meteorological Society report paints a grim picture of the global climate.

We are proud to announce the brand new Klaxon Cloud, now a standalone service that makes it easier than ever to create new alerts and track changes across websites over time. With this relaunch come t...

California, Arizona and Nevada will be required to slash their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River by 16 to 20% through 2028, under a federal plan set to be released in the next few day...

Newsom has been quietly whipping support for California’s billionaire-backed megacity as it faces the loss of a key tenant.

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.

Standout selections from 2024–25, chosen by the American Library Association’s Government Documents Roundtable.

After two years of research conducted amid staffing cuts and government shutdowns, the committee concluded that federal agencies cannot repair the public-records system on their own.

“Today, the commission discusses whether to turn back time to a period before the civil rights movement, kneecapping its ability to protect workers,” said Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal, the sole Democr...

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution's leadership as radical activists who cannot ...