With the number of people being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement escalating at a rapid rate since January, ...

For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security.

A swath of federal agencies — from the Department of the Interior to the U.S. Air Force and Department of Energy — have ...

In an unprecedented move, India held the water treaty in abeyance after blaming Pakistan for a deadly attack in April.

Over the holiday weekend, New Mexico’s neighboring state endured a catastrophic flood that claimed the lives of more than 100 ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

A new working paper from economists Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova categorizes tribal gaming as a kind of ...

A Russian official named Roman Starovoit acted as the Kremlin's Transportation Minister was reported dead hours after Putin fired him. Officials say he died by suicide.

The search for missing people in central Texas continues. Volunteers from the United Cajun Navy have traveled from the state of Louisiana to help.

NPR's Michel Martin asks U.S. Coast Guard Air Operations Officer Nathan Shakespeare about his work coordinating rescues in the Texas flood zone from a base in Corpus Christi.

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the coast of Southern California. Some sea lions are now being released back into ...