Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

The state health official who led Michigan's efforts to build work requirements into Medicaid says other states will soon be learning some very lessons about what is involved and how much it costs.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon's trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks.

Today 16 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in support of children's hospitals and doctors that have provided gender-affirming care for minors, contending the Trump administration has ...

President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday, and a jobs report out Friday fell short of expectations. We look at the political and economic fallout.

The push to rehire retired workers comes as the administration has also sought to downsize large swaths of the federal ...

Lehrer, who died July 26, wrote numerous satirical songs, including "Pollution" and "The Vatican Rag." In the latter half of his life, he also taught math at Harvard and MIT.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee inspected an aid distribution center operated by ...

Missouri advocates for families say the federal budget "megabill" could make it harder for them to put food on the table. The changes shift more of the administrative costs for SNAP, the federal ...