Morning Edition visits three states — Maine, Kansas, and Wisconsin — to hear how the government shutdown is affecting federal employees and the Americans who rely on their work. As the shutdown ...

Between DOGE and the government shutdown, it's a tough time to be a federal worker. But students in a Pentagon-funded pilot program are excited about working for the government. Despite all the ...

Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net ...

Overdose deaths plummeted in the U.S. in 2024, down by 27%. The news comes as the White House and Congress are advocating for steep cuts in programs that may be working to lower the death rate. Street ...

Department of Justice programs that support and protect crime survivors are being targeted for funding cancellation by the Trump administration. When the Trump administration moved to cancel about ...

NPR executives are scanning the horizon for storm clouds even as they are planning a stand-pat budget for the upcoming fiscal year: They don't yet know how badly NPR local member stations have been ...

This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. And research shows most online programs cost as much or more than in-person.

Calling all student storytellers: NPR's Student Podcast Challenge is back for 2026. As always, we're looking to award prizes to the best middle school and high school podcasts in America — but we have ...

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...

The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets. It did so at the direct request of President Trump, who ...

The Trump administration says it has a compelling reason to claw back $7.9 billion in foreign aid funds that Congress had approved prior to his taking office: evidence of what President Trump called ...