A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.

After an 11-month wait, giant pandas will populate the zoo once again. A pair of pandas, which left China on FedEx's "Panda ...

ERIE, Pa. — Vice President Harris brought a little bit of her Republican rival into her own campaign event on Monday in a bid ...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley hammered his opponent and greeted supporters in Missouri's third-largest city — a deeply Republican ...

Pollsters try to create an accurate model of the electorate. But that model can change abruptly, like when Vice President Harris became the Democratic nominee.

The Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Carolina calls schools "indoctrination centers" and has a shot at a victory.

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People’s Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.

A non profit has trained more than 160,000 veterans as poll workers, in the face of growing threats and skepticism about the security of elections.

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Carrie Lowry Schuttepelz about her new book The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native In America.

Arizona could go either way this presidential year -- that's what makes it a swing state. But it could also go either way on down the state's ballot, right to a question on abortion rights.