MDC staff, partner federal agencies, and partnering fire departments fought more than 224 wildfires covering more than 15,500 ...

Washington, D.C., police were in an awkward position during this week's standoff between the U.S. Institute of Peace and DOGE staffers, who sought access to the building to install a new president.

Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal ...

In this week's Short Wave roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber talk about the origins of life on Earth, what bird brains illuminate about human speech and how ADHD is mischaracterized on TikTok.

There are around 240,000 Muslims living in Michigan, and less than a dozen Muslim foster families. An iftar celebration hoped to help Muslim foster youth find a spiritual community.

Houthi rebels have been attacking ships, choking off transit in one of the world's most critical waterways. The Pentagon says it'll stay till the Houthis stop the attacks.

The chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., is facing calls for impeachment after blocking one of President Trump's immigration plans.

Seals can directly sense the oxygen in their own bloodstream, new research in the journal Science finds.

President Trump signed a long-expected executive action on Thursday calling on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the Department of Education. The president signed the order at an ...

Judge James Boasberg had earlier asked the Trump administration to provide more details about weekend flights that deported ...

Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The ...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Murphy resigned from the Department of Justice, telling NPR, 'It just was not a ...