More than two dozen Democratic state leaders are suing the Department of Agriculture after the Trump administration said it ...

A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to ...

The federal government remains shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the shutdown is affecting services across the country.

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats ...

The federal shutdown will affect people across the United States. NPR's network of member stations explains what will be ...

A Boston federal judge suggested she was not persuaded by the Trump administration's argument that it is legally barred from ...

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way.

NPR and WBUR announced today three strategic new appointments at Here & Now, the live midday news program heard on 500 NPR ...

NPR is accusing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in federal court of reneging on a contract to appease the White House ...

A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely halted thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump ...

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid ...

As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance.