For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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.

The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.

Democratic U.S. House candidate Will Lawrence is calling for a moratorium on data centers and advanced artificial intelligence models as well as a national AI compact

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...

A top executive addressed restoration delays as nearly 25,000 customers in the city still remain without power.

Tens of thousands of people in Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines. Schools remain closed and businesses have been unable to reopen.

Tech companies are holding listening sessions, offering guaranteed jobs and writing big checks to win public support for the data centers they need.

Both Elon Musk and Marco Rubio claim that no one has lost their life as a result of aid cuts. New Lines went to northeastern Nigeria to test that claim

We're getting a stark reminder of what happens when you gut a public-health system.

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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There’s a type of public relations exercise that unfolds like a joke. In it, a notable figure who has chosen to sit for a longform profile, declined to answer a sensitive question through her…

The United States' war in ​Iran has cost $37.5 billion ‌so far, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said ​on Tuesday, an ​increase of nearly $8 billion ⁠since the last public ​estimate.

No one supports your community like Channel 7. But the FCC questions that commitment.

The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...

Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records