While too much shouldn't be made out of off-year elections, the Nov. 4 election will be the first major electoral sign of the ...

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With federal food aid frozen during the government shutdown, there has been a wave of people rushing to help — sending gift ...

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Toronto for the second time in a week, as the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers held off the ...

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S ...

Former student media director Jim Rodenbush sued Indiana University in federal court, alleging the school violated his ...

Judge Indira Talwani acknowledged this will leave millions of people without assistance starting Saturday. Two dozen ...

President Trump is back in Washington after spending a week in Asia. He attended the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, addressed ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sen. Lisa Murkowski about the possible loss of SNAP benefits due to the shutdown.

Before Richard Rodgers revolutionized Broadway with songwriting partner Oscar Hammerstein, he and Lorenz Hart crafted some of the most indelible showtunes of the 1920s and 30s. The duo has again ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Florence Welch, who heads Florence and the Machine, about her new album, Everybody Scream.