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After narrowly escaping an earlier panel, state Surgeon General John Armstrong on Tuesday did not get a scheduled confirmation hearing before the Senate...

GOP ads around the country for state and federal campaigns have featured themes on combating "Radical Islam" and "Sharia law," and warning of "Islamic movements" taking root.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel about the debate on national security in the 2016 presidential race.

NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Rachel Balkovec, the new manager of the Tampa Tarpons and the first woman to manage a team at any level in Major League Baseball history.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Jezebel founder Anna Holmes about the shutdown of the publication.

Oil companies hope to build the nation's largest oil-by-rail terminal on the Columbia River in Washington. Proponents say it will bring economic growth, but others fear it could mean fiery accidents.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visit Iraq unannounced on Tuesday, but her trip was overshadowed by an incursion into the northern part of the country by Turkish troops hunting guerrillas of the Kurdish separatist group PKK. The U.S. has recently begun sharing intelligence with Turkey to pinpoint guerrilla positions.

Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to announce recommendations for U.S. military base closings. This round is expected to slash up to 10 percent of capacity, down from earlier estimates of 20 to 25 percent. Plans to house U.S. troops returning from overseas affected the numbers.

California is about to become the first state to require shore power at its ports. A new law mandates at least half of a shipping line's fleet to shut down their diesel engines and plug into shore-side electric power when they unload their cargo. It's part of a larger effort to cut pollution at the state's busiest ports, but costs have been a sticking point.

The Federal Reserve will decide Wednesday whether to keep raising interest rates to combat high inflation. The decision has been clouded by recent turmoil in the banking system.

The Federal Reserve will decide Wednesday whether to keep raising interest rates to combat high inflation. The decision has been clouded by recent turmoil in the banking system.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jessica Kutz, a reporter for The 19th, about a recent study that sheds light on how polluted air in Louisiana has affected pregnant people and their children.

The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now what?"

President Trump travels to Europe to meet with other leaders of NATO countries in The Hague, at a summit that will discuss a big boost in defense spending commitments from members.

Linda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress best known for her role as a single mom and waitress in the TV sitcom "Alice," has died. She was 87. (Story aired on ATC on Dec. 31, 2024.)

President Trump's announcement this week linking Tylenol with autism could play a role in ongoing legal cases against the company that makes it.

NPR's A Martinez asks Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley, an expert on fascism, about his decision to leave the U.S. and accept a position teaching American studies in Canada.

Melissa Block interviews John Armbruster, a seismologist with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University, about why he believes the waste from fracking in Ohio has led to the earthquakes there. He says the injection of waste water from the fracking process created pressure on nearby faults, and he expects the quakes to continue — even after the process is stopped.

In spite of growing calls for Congress to take action on AI, the House went home early and won't be back until after this November's midterm elections.

The government of Italy has imposed a lockdown on its northern region, including the cities of Milan and Venice. More than 5,800 people have tested positive for COVID-19, and 233 have died.

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark -- also a one-time contender for the Democratic Party nomination in 2004 -- discusses the ongoing violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, why the international community has been slow to react and why Americans should care about the ethnic and religious strife that has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and countless refugees.

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan talks about how the aborted march on Moscow by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is impacting U.S. political calculus around the war in Ukraine.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake about President Trump's notion that four Democratic congresswomen of color should "go back" to where they came from.

In an exclusive interview with NPR, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia describes how investigators are building their case.