Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to honor his long civil rights legacy begin in Chicago. Events will also ...

President Trump's White House ballroom project can proceed for now, after a court ruling Thursday. A US District Court judge denied a preservation group's effort to put a pause on construction, but ...

The fight over collective bargaining in Virginia is ongoing at the legislature, where competing efforts offer different protections.

Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it's not just big tech aligning the two parties.

After the U.S. withdrew from the World Health Organization, it wasn't clear they would participate in this WHO-led meeting to ...

While a new Shenandoah County School Board member won a legal challenge to his election, there is an open criminal investigation into his conduct. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.

The average home loan rate has dropped below 6% for the first time since 2022. Will that help thaw the frozen housing market?

U.S. and Iranian officials are set to meet today in Geneva to discuss Tehran's nuclear program. And, Harvard professor Larry Summers is resigning over ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Activists say racial progress won by the Rev. Jesse Jackson is under threat, as a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt about his spat with President Trump, immigration and the future of the Republican Party.

A court on Thursday used Hong Kong's national security law to jail Kwok Yin-sang for eight months, in the first case against a family member of an activist living abroad, and wanted by authorities.

Harrisonburg researchers and community leaders preserving a historic boarding house have found a trove of documents and photographs that make up a rich archive of Black entrepreneurial life in the ...