NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Petrilli, head of the education policy thinktank Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.

The squirting cucumber doesn't get its name for nothing. And it's why her supervisor, who studies biomechanics, was so ...

On Wild Card, guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Celine Song shares a story from her childhood about the early signs that she'd become a movie director.

The Senate considers the rescissions package that would strip $9.4 billion for public boradcasting and foreign aid.

The judge's decision vacated a rule imposed by the Biden administration earlier this year to keep medical debt from affecting ...

Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect.

Pam Bondi sought to move past questions about her handling of the Justice Department's files from the Jeffrey Epstein ...

The Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Europe are working with NATO members to ship more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine and release more munitions that were briefly halted.

The Senate is debating whether to halt funding for public media, which could be devastating for some stations. The libertarian Cato Institute makes the case for why the funding should be pulled.

With 101 people still missing after the July 4 flash flood, the focus turns to local lakes, and what may be buried in them.

Wimberley, Texas, was the site of a devastating flash flood on Memorial Day weekend in 2015. Ten years later, the city has rebuilt with such floods in mind, but still feels the effects emotionally.

Years ago, scientists moved eggs of a federally threatened frog from Mexico to Southern California. Audio monitoring -- with an AI assist -- now shows the complicated conservation effort is working.