New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18. The shortage of corrections officers was ...

As the Trump administration moves to quickly expand immigration detention space, a series of standoffs have emerged between ...

Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in ...

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of ...

The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a ...

Pope Leo is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we know ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission works to protect Americans from dangerous products and issuing recalls and warnings.

Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are starting talks this weekend in Switzerland. These are the first high-level ...

For close watchers of the Catholic Church, the election of a U.S. pope seemed impossible. The "Trump effect" on the U.S. and ...

NPR has learned that rules must now be vetted by the White House and that the administration is drafting an executive order ...