While Senate offices have access to chatbots like ChatGPT, they are not authorized to use any of the more advanced tools that are at the center of regulatory talks and public debate about AI safety.

While many Republican candidates, even in some critical tossup races, still back President Trump's baseless claims about election integrity, some GOP voters say they are ready to move on.

A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.

In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collect air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.

Numbers have doubled across the region since Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to the reins in March.

The administration spent months assuring Congress it would keep immigration officers away from the vote. Yet it had already reassigned hundreds of them secretly to comb through voter rolls.

An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting has revealed that glyphosate is being sprayed in California forests at record levels by timber companies and the U.S. Forest Service. Glyphos...

As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.

In a new report, former Interlochen students detail some 70 allegations of sexual abuse by nearly 50 adults employed or affiliated with the school. One of the former students tells his story to NPR.

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By some estimates, the U.S. is 58,000 people short of the workforce needed to install the fiber-optic cable that connects data centers to the internet.

With hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras popping up all over the U.S., there's pushback on the efforts to track everyday American's movements.

A doctor and lung expert argued New York’s air quality will worsen from proposed Environmental Protection Agency rollbacks.The agency plans to remove certain standards on heavy-duty vehicles like semi...

Secondhand booksellers across Europe, including in the Netherlands, are raising concerns over AI companies buying large numbers of obscure and often rare books. The alleged intent behind such shopping...

Heading to Georgia on Wednesday, President Trump is campaigning more often this year than he did in the same period for 2018 and has already rallied for a dozen candidates in toss-up races.

Kent Carpenter, 73, who police said was killed by three men who entered his house, is said to have shaped global conservation efforts with his research on marine biodiversity in the Southeast Asian na...

Republicans are spending more money and running more ads on immigration than Democrats are ahead of the November midterm elections, according to an NPR analysis of advertisement data.

Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall profits and give the money to lower-income Americans.

The governor said her order pauses state environmental permits for one year in order to build a regulatory framework that protects the environment and ratepayers.

Trump is the first president to have an airport named after him while in office. The Trump Organization says he won't get royalties from the renaming, but legal experts see potential loopholes.

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The newspaper for the American military has long taken pride in its editorial independence. But under the Trump administration, restrictions have been imposed, and the Pentagon's chief spokesman has v...

Across major demographic and partisan groups, more Americans support than oppose banning those under 16 from using social media.

Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn has been indicted on one federal charge after he was arrested for reaching into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool last month. His lawyers released a scathing sta...

There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters.

More U.S. scientists are heading abroad. Three researchers explain why they decided to shift their research to universities in the U.K.

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.

In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court sided with the manufacturer of Roundup, overturning a Missouri jury award for a man who claimed the herbicide caused cancer. The decision is expected to block thousa...

The president’s voter suppression crusade just hit a huge snag.

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.

The findings suggest Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness last fall and winter.

The bipartisan legislation was crafted in both chambers and must now pass the House. It seeks to build more homes and prevent large investors from outbidding families.

Voting officials worry that the Department of Homeland Security will not be a partner helping to secure elections, but rather a threat seeking to undermine results that President Trump dislikes.

Environmental advocates are planning a protest in Binghamton on Monday in response to a scheduled visit by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, who is expected to discuss the...

A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.

ICE is working to address all of those issues at Winn Correctional Center, including by providing additional staff training, a spokesperson said.

The administration touts a 73% drop in call wait times. Researchers who found terminally ill clients dying before paperwork clears.

The New Mexico Truth Commission is demanding documents in search of the full story of Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ranch.

The EEOC is seeking to overturn rules created decades ago to tackle discrimination in employment. The Trump administration says those rules have led to more discrimination —against white people.

ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of...

The Justice Department is moving up the court hearings for hundreds of immigrants and scheduling them for mass hearings. If they don't show up, they could be ordered deported.

A Noticias Telemundo investigation documented a marked increase in cases of people posing as federal agents to rob, intimidate and even injure or rape immigrants.

Screening tools and hygiene measures deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic are making a comeback, with Uganda suspending large cultural events as a precaution.

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More than 1,000 emergency calls were made over the last year from at least six detention centers around the country, according to call logs obtained by NBC News.

Epstein owned a 10,000-acre property with a mansion. After calls by the public, the state attorney general searched the property and the state House created a "Truth Commission."

Critics of spyware, which can be used to remotely hack into phones, worry the Trump administration is eroding policies that stigmatized the commercial spyware industry.

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