Ahead of the July 4 holiday, a new poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist sheds light on how people are feeling about the state of democracy, the political parties and the job President Trump is doing.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michael Ricci, who's worked with multiple congressional Republicans and is now a professor at Georgetown University, about the bill's prospects in the House.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tamara Yajia about her memoir, Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star and growing up with her unconventional family in the U.S. and Argentina.

During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the ...

The Republican megabill cuts trillions in taxes, while scaling back spending on Medicaid and other federal programs. It now ...

In the U.S., four in five cars sold last year were either SUVs or pickup trucks. That's a far cry from even the 1990s, when that number was closer to 25% of all sales.

President Trump will visit a new detention center for detained migrants in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

The U.S. is in the middle of hurricane season, but key data used to track the intensity of these storms may soon go offline.

Police in Idaho have identified the man who fatally shot two wildland firefighters and critically injured another in an apparent ambush after he intentionally started a brush fire.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Adrianna McIntyre, assistant professor of health policy and politics at Harvard, about how the GOP spending bill before the Senate would impact Medicaid.

Senate Republicans are closing in on a final vote on President Trump's signature domestic policy bill, hoping to have it to his desk by a self-imposed July 4 deadline.

Out in the Big Bend area of West Texas, the nighttime skies are some of the darkest in the world, making it a perfect place for stargazing. Locals have worked to keep it that way.