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A car with an Italian flag is seen at the annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City in 2023. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption …

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, one Seattle man embarks on a journey to a remote mountain in Laos where his father was last seen during a …

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The U.S. Supreme Court Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a case testing the reach of federal laws that …

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency claims to have saved billions of dollars. It has cut costs in some places, but in other areas it has exaggerated its success. What …

This screenshot from a video posted on X by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Division shows law enforcement officers raiding a nightclub in Colorado Springs. Drug Enforcement Administration Rocky …

The Trump administration is seeking ideas to boost the birthrate in the U.S. NPR’s Lauren Frayer speaks with Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies about his policy recommendations.

Tracey Malone, executive director of the Sandtown-Winchester Community Collective, stands outside a shuttered recreation center in Baltimore. André Chung for NPR hide caption toggle caption André Chung for NPR Standing …

Alexis Herman was tapped by former President Bill Clinton to serve as secretary of labor. Upon her confirmation in 1997, she became the first Black secretary of labor in American …

Alex Villatoro is finishing high school in the U.S. without his parents after his father was deported back to Guatemala in January and his mother decided to move there with …