When I opened Instagram on the afternoon of Aug. 26, my feed exploded with the news of pop icon Taylor Swift’s engagement to ...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has revealed in a podcast that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely ...

"It’s unfortunate how gutter language has become the new normal in what could have been an intelligent, truthful, and ...

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to ...

Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned ...

Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political ...

If you’ve ever scrolled through a heated online debate or watched two political candidates duke it out on the debate stage with neither side backing down, you’re probably wondering if there is a term ...

We look at where the willingness among Democrats and Republicans is to end the government shutdown, as well as U.S. strikes on alleged cartel boats in the Caribbean. We're joined now by NPR senior ...

On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun ...

A new Alabama law on human smuggling, one of several bills on illegal immigration proposed by Republican legislators this year, takes effect Wednesday. The bill by Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, makes it ...

As President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats clash ahead of a partial government shutdown that could start Oct. 1, thousands of federal workers are faced with potential furloughs. Barring a ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth, during a gathering of top military leadership Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia, said there will be new standards in the military going forward: PETE HEGSETH, U.S. SECRETARY OF ...