NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with labor historian Harley Shaiken about what President Trump's pick for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, tells us about how he's thinking about labor policy.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with researcher Vanda Felbab-Brown about why she thinks President Trump's proposed tariffs and designating cartels as terrorist organizations won't stop the opioid crisis.

For decades, residents of Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ontario, across the river in Canada, have had close ties. A month into President Trump's second term, relations have deteriorated.

Some lawmakers and agencies diverged from an official Office of Personnel Management request for employees to document their work.

Elon Musk's claim that federal workers who ignore a mass email will lose their job isn't supported by the email's request — ...

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli ...

One suburban Kansas resident is pressing state lawmakers to legalize raccoons as pets. He says they're smarter and friendlier than people give them credit for.

Medical researchers say the Trump administration's plan to reduce payments for indirect research costs will hamper the search for new cures. A visit to University of Maryland lab studying how viruses ...

Hezbollah on Sunday holds a long-delayed funeral for leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut in November. The event is expected to be akin to a state funeral, marking the end ...

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires left a vast amount of toxic debris. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Tony Briscoe, environmental reporter at The Los Angeles Times, about where the cleanup stands.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with comedian George Wallace, co-creator and star of the new sitcom "Clean Slate," one of the last projects produced by Norman Lear.