Days after the president's call for a "new" census, the top official overseeing the Census Bureau told employees that ...

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Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

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Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

For multiple days, more people are killed trying to get food in Gaza than in Israeli air strikes, medics say.

LOUISVILLE, KY (AP)— Ford says it will invest nearly $2 billion to retool a Kentucky plant to produce electric vehicles.