The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate today for the second time in six weeks. The central bank is trying to shore up the sagging job market.

DHS's social media campaign promises to defend American identity and culture from an invasion. For many Latinos, it's a ...

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, because the central bank is more ...

Disability advocacy organization New Disabled South is sending one-time cash payments to disabled SNAP recipients in southern states. About 30% of SNAP recipients are disabled or elderly.

Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings ...

Austin Tice was captured and detained in 2012 by the Assad regime in Syria. Tice is the longest-held American journalist ...

DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, ...

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews ...

Young teens who use cannabis are more likely to be frequent users than people who start later, according to a study in JAMA ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Officials are assessing the damage after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5. And, how the government ...

Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, talks about a judge's ruling stopping the Trump administration from firing federal worker during the shutdown.