The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas.
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Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.
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Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
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NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
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Wholesale prices for a turkey have jumped 40% from a year ago.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is lifting restrictions imposed during the country's longest government shutdown. Airlines can resume their regular flight schedules beginning Monday at 6 a.m. EST.
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Members of the House, including some Republicans, have forced a vote as early as Tuesday to release unclassified files held by the government.
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There is renewed criticism over the names of military and DHS operations, including the most recent, Operation Charlotte's Web.
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The decision by the Defense Department comes as Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland have been stalled for weeks by the courts.
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It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built for the U.S. military.
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NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence interviewed Dave Carlson over 10 years, as the Iraq war vet went from war to incarceration to redemption on his long journey home.
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