Affordable housing and a shortage of skilled trades workers are both pressing issues in the U.S. A Colorado city is ...

OSLO, Norway — The daughter of María Corina Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on her mother's behalf Wednesday ...

Federal officials remain tight-lipped about the full scope of the Catahoula Crunch immigration enforcement operation, ...

The head of the NTSB is voicing strong opposition to provisions in the defense policy bill. The NTSB says the House bill ...

As Republicans and Democrats gear up for next year's midterm elections, new polling shows they're losing ground with a powerful and growing bloc of the electorate: young voters.

María Corina Machado's daughter accepted her mother's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, vowing the embattled Venezuelan opposition leader "will never give up" on a free Venezuela.

Many Afghan "Zero Unit" fighters who served under the CIA now feel they are being abandoned after seeking asylum in the U.S. They've faced despair and isolation - and some have taken their own lives.

A new study suggests humans were deliberately starting and using fires more than 400,000 years ago.

Republican-led states have raced to redraw congressional lines to advantage their own party. But the effort hit unexpected pushback in Indiana.

The Federal Reserve voted to cut its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday. This was the Fed's third rate cut since September, but policymakers signaled they expect to make fewer rate cuts next year.

Most schools across the state could see their performance scores fall when Louisiana’s new accountability system takes effect ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins, who will be the city's first female mayor and the first Democrat in decades to hold the seat.