The family of a helicopter pilot who died when his helicopter crashed in 2020 while fighting a wildfire near Coalinga reached a $15 million settlement with the company that maintained the aircraft.

Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.

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

A federal judge in San Francisco appeared ready to temporarily block the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.

The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.

Janinna Sesa worked alongside Pope Leo XIV in Chiclayo, Peru from 2015 until 2023. She spoke with NPR about his leadership in times of crisis.

For close watchers of the Catholic Church, the election of a U.S. pope seemed impossible. The "Trump effect" on the U.S. and global order changed that, papal expert Massimo Faggioli told NPR.

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

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the numbers of measles cases in the country on Friday. Here's ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback ...

Vice President Vance said the fighting between India and Pakistan was "fundamentally none of our business." Experts say the U ...

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