The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled it could upend a central pillar of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The question at the heart of arguments is whether lawmakers can use race as a factor ...

What does the Pentagon's restrictive new press policy mean for coverage of military affairs? NPR's Michel Martin asks longtime journalist and former Defense Department spokesperson Pete Williams. For ...

(Beirut) – Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s ...

Matt Kalloway remembers the rusted pieces of metal and old railway ties his three children used to dig up from the abandoned railway that sat directly in front of his house in Borden, Indiana. That ...

A team of researchers from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Tsinghua University has unveiled a new messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine ...

Over the weekend, roughly 1,300 employees at the CDC received notices they were fired. As the Trump administration realized it had fired some key staff, reportedly half of them were reinstated the ...

In the coming days, a food aid program that helps millions of mothers and young children will likely run out of money. States like Indiana must use their own dollars to keep funds flowing to families ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A popular Oregon shoemaker is heading to court after customers complained their sneakers are excessively squeaky. A class action lawsuit filed in federal court last week ...

Thousands of Kaiser nurses are expected to go on strike starting tomorrow, while later this week, Sharp nurses will hold their own informational picket. KPBS reporter Alexander Nguyen breaks down what ...

Deep Fission’s underground design Deep Fission says its underground design could be scaled up to provide a lot of energy with little space. It says, for example, that it could nestle 100 nuclear ...

MIAMI — Less than 200 miles from Miami-Dade County, the place with the highest number of Alzheimer’s patients in America, dolphins are washing up dead with brains full of toxins and riddled with the ...